[ovs-dev] [IPv6 IV: A New Hope 3/6] nicira-ext: Support matching ARP source and target hardware addresses.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Wed Feb 2 17:35:17 UTC 2011


On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 12:53:50AM -0800, Justin Pettit wrote:
> OpenFlow 1.0 doesn't allow matching on the ARP source and target
> hardware address.  This has caused us to introduce hacks such as the
> Drop Spoofed ARP action.  Now that we have extensible match, we can
> match on more fields within ARP:
> 
>     - Source Hardware Address (arp_sha)
>     - Target Hardware Address (arp_tha)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com>
> Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>

After taking a closer look the only other comment I have is that, since
ovs-ofctl says that drop_spoofed_arp is now deprecated, nicira-ext.h
should say the same thing.

Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>




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