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

Jean Tourrilhes jt at hpl.hp.com
Thu Oct 28 17:03:35 UTC 2010


On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:00:15AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 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?

	I don't know what was your intention and if you had a reason
to not make it available, so I treated carefully.
	Also, my patch is a quick hack, if you enable both --in-band
and --local, I don't know what will happen.

> Thanks,
> 
> Ben.

	Regards,

	Jean




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