[ovs-dev] Error

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Feb 13 16:33:29 UTC 2015


On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 11:27:48AM +0300, Amer wrote:
> I am trying to change the size of VLAN tag, I have changed the size
> parameters in pox and the size of VLAN-tci in
> openveswitch/datapath/vlan.h and vlan.c
> 
> However, I am still receiving the down error, my question is what
> parameters should I modify in openveswitch code files to extend the
> vlan tag to 64-bit.

The error you provided is for OpenFlow 1.0.  OpenFlow 1.0 has a
fixed-size flow match structure.  Any change you make to a flow match,
such as to extend the VLAN ID to 64-bit (!), will make the result
incompatible with every other OpenFlow 1.0 implementation.



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