[ovs-dev] [PATCH 6/6] ofproto: Add NXM_NX_TUN_GBP_ID and NXM_NX_TUN_GBP_FLAGS

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Feb 13 21:30:53 UTC 2015


On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 04:45:11PM +0100, Thomas Graf wrote:
> From: Madhu Challa <challa at noironetworks.com>
> 
> Introduces two new NXMs to represent VXLAN-GBP [0] fields.
> 
>   actions=load:0x10->NXM_NX_TUN_GBP_ID[],NORMAL
>   tun_gbp_id=0x10,actions=drop
> 
> This enables existing VXLAN tunnels to carry security label
> information such as a SELinux context to other network peers.
> 
> The values are carried to/from the datapath using the attribute
> OVS_TUNNEL_KEY_ATTR_VXLAN_OPTS.
> 
> [0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-smith-vxlan-group-policy-00
> 
> Signed-off-by: Madhu Challa <challa at noironetworks.com>

Thanks for being patient with me on this.

meta-flow.h says that gbp_id is formatted in decimal and gbp_flags in
hex but ofp_print_packet_in() in ofp-print.c uses the opposite
convention.

I'm sure you can work that out so:
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>



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