[ovs-dev] ofport = -1?

Krzysztof Wojciechowski krzysztofwojciechowski at poczta.pl
Thu Jul 13 08:35:48 UTC 2017


Thanks for that! Can you give me link to that doc?

all in all. Those ports "works" and they are created like that by 
XenServer... Is there any workaround for that?


W dniu 2017-07-12 o 16:56, Ben Pfaff pisze:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 02:05:58PM +0200, Krzysztof Wojciechowski wrote:
>> I am writing some kind of SDN driver at this moment. I have problem with
>> ofports. Sometimes they have value "-1". I am not sure if its wrong. But i
>> cant add flow with ACTION=output:-1
>> I think We didn't have this problem with Xen Cloud Platform or Xen installed
>> on Xen on Debian. But it exist in XenServer6.5 (not sure if in newer).
> Did you read the documentation?
>
>         ofport: optional integer
>                OpenFlow  port number for this interface. Open vSwitch sets this
>                column’s value, so other clients should treat it as read-only.
>
>                The OpenFlow ``local’’ port (OFPP_LOCAL) is  65,534.  The  other
>                valid  port  numbers  are  in  the range 1 to 65,279, inclusive.
>                Value -1 indicates an error adding the interface.



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