[ovs-dev] Adding a new field to ovs-ofctl

[Jarno Rajahalme]

> On Nov 6, 2013, at 5:32 PM, Anu Mercian <anumercian at live.com> wrote:
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> Hi Jarno,
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> Thank you very much for the reply. 
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> 1. I want to recognize a new routing scheme over Ethertype, so keeping dl_type as ethertype, I want to add a new field that recognizes the new routing protocol. In this case, which files of ovs-ofctl do I have to modify?
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> 2. Another way of seeing this is, as of now (as per man pages of ovs-ofctl), nw_proto recognizes ip (0x0800), ipv6 (0x86dd), arp (0x0806) and rarp (0x8035), what if I want to recognize another protocol (say 0x0802), do I have to modify the ovs-ofctl.c file?

You can match on any ethertype you want. In your case you would match on "dl_type=0x0802". Matching anything within a new ethertype, however, is not possible.

  Jarno

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