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The Forwarding module utilizes OFDPAUtils to detect an OF-DPA switch and install simple forwarding rules (as forwarding is designed to for any switch). OFDPAUtils helps abstract the complex OF-DPA pipeline from Forwarding. The Forwarding need module only needs to provide some simple match and output action information in order to have all applicable flows installed in each required table of the OF-DPA switch to achieve the desired packet forwarding operation.
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