[ovs-dev] [PATCH] FAQ: Add FAQ entry about flow normalization.
Ben Pfaff
blp at nicira.com
Wed Jul 11 07:15:41 UTC 2012
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
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FAQ | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ
index 7f3a784..572b852 100644
--- a/FAQ
+++ b/FAQ
@@ -489,6 +489,37 @@ Q: My OpenFlow controller doesn't see the VLANs that I expect.
A: See answer under "VLANs", above.
+Q: I ran "ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 nw_dst=192.168.0.1,actions=drop"
+ but I got a funny message like this:
+
+ ofp_util|INFO|normalization changed ofp_match, details:
+ ofp_util|INFO| pre: nw_dst=192.168.0.1
+ ofp_util|INFO|post:
+
+ and when I ran "ovs-ofctl dump-flows br0" I saw that my nw_dst
+ match had disappeared, so that the flow ends up matching every
+ packet.
+
+A: The term "normalization" in the log message means that a flow
+ cannot match on an L3 field without saying what L3 protocol is in
+ use. The "ovs-ofctl" command above didn't say, so the L3 field
+ match was dropped.
+
+ In this case, the L3 protocol could be IP or ARP. A correct
+ command for each possibility is, respectively:
+
+ ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 ip,nw_dst=192.168.0.1,actions=drop
+
+ and
+
+ ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 arp,nw_dst=192.168.0.1,actions=drop
+
+ Similarly, a flow cannot match on an L4 field without saying what
+ L4 protocol is in use. For example, the flow match "tp_src=1234"
+ is, by itself, meaningless and will be ignored. Instead, to match
+ TCP source port 1234, write "tcp,tp_src=1234", or to match UDP
+ source port 1234, write "udp,tp_src=1234".
+
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