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Table 4 Example of TAP high-level policy specification in DTARS application

From: OpenStackDP: a scalable network security framework for SDN-based OpenStack cloud infrastructure

TAP Policy

Identifier fields (mandatory)

Filtering fields (Optional)

Sender MAC

Sender IP

Receiver MAC

Receiver IP

Monitor MAC

Monitor IP

IPv4 Protocol

VLAN ID

SRC Port no

DST Port no

Other OF Fields

Policy#1

74:8f:3c: ba:91:05

10.1.1.5

74:8f:3c: ba:91:06

10.1.1.6

74:8f:3c: ba:91:07

10.1.1.7

6 (TCP)

*

*

80

–

Policy#2

74:8f:3c: ba:91:05

10.1.1.5

74:8f:3c: ba:91:06

10.1.1.6

74:8f:3c: ba:91:08

10.1.1.8

18 (UDP)

108

*

*

MPLS_LABEL = 10

Policy#3

74:8f:3c: ba:91:06

10.1.1.6

74:8f:3c: ba:91:05

10.1.1.5

74:8f:3c: ba:91:09

10.1.1.9

6 (TCP)

200

*

80

IP_ECN = 9