[ovs-dev] [PATCH]: Trio of small fixes

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu Oct 28 17:00:15 UTC 2010


On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 06:19:57PM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> ovs-1.0.1-hpl-enable-local.diff
> -------------------------------
> 	In-band control steal the ARP to/from the local interface even
> before they get to rule processing. If one want to be able to process
> those ARPs with actual OpenFlow rules, one as to use the
> option --out-of-band. But, when you do that, OFPP_LOCAL does not
> exist, which defeat the purpose.
> 	This patch adds an option to force OFPP_LOCAL to exist when
> not running in-band.

I'm pretty sure that we intend for OFPP_LOCAL to always be available.
Do you see a reason to make this optional, as opposed to always-on?

Thanks,

Ben.




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