[ovs-dev] [ovs-discuss] Problem in Netflow configuration

[Justin Pettit]

> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com> wrote:
>> You're actually pretty close but you need to escape the colon with a
>> backslash.  For example:
>> 
>> ovs-vsctl create netflow target="192.168.1.150\:12000"
> 
> This is probably the #1 ovs-vsctl FAQ.  I think I might drop the
> need to escape ":" when it follows "=" within an ovs-vsctl command.
> The only syntactic reason to disallow them is consistency.  The general
> form is a:b=c for many ovs-vsctl database commands; clearly in the
> "a" part colons must be escaped, but there isn't the same need in the
> "b" or "c" parts.
> 
> Any comments/objections?

I think it's a great idea.  This gets particularly nasty when dealing with MAC addresses.

--Justin