[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/2] cfm: Scope CFM packets to key zero.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Sat Oct 13 03:12:44 UTC 2012


On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 07:40:22PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote:
> Before this patch, when a tunnel is configured with key=flow, CFM
> didn't verify that incoming packets had the appropriate key of
> zero.  This could cause the CFM module to consume packets which
> weren't actually intended for it.
> 
> Bug #13542.
> Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan at nicira.com>

This looks good to me.

It might be good to add some words about this verification in the
documentation for CFM in vswitch.xml.



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