[ovs-dev] [ofproto-dpif 4/5] ofproto-dpif: Improperly handled OFPP_ALL action.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Nov 18 05:41:25 UTC 2011


On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 06:26:54PM -0800, Ethan Jackson wrote:
> According to the OpenFlow specification, the OFPP_ALL output to
> every port except the input port regardless of whether or not they
> are "blocked or link down".  This patch implements this logic, and
> marginally simplifies the interface of flood_packets().

Well, I'll be darned.  I didn't realize that OFPP_ALL was supposed to
ignore that, but that's what the document says.

It looks like we fail to honor OFPPC_NO_FWD, but I think that we should;
OF1.1 is explicit about that.



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