[ovs-discuss] flow table matching with access port

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 01:32:55PM +0530, edward wilson wrote:
> I need to understand access port functionality in OVS and matching with
> flow entry created on switch
> As mentioned in man-page :-
> 
> "Any packet with an 802.1Q header that ingresses on an access port is
> dropped, regardless of whether the VLAN ID in the header is the access
> port’s VLAN ID."
> 
> 
> 
> But when I have vnet1 (VM attached to bridge) as access port( vlan 3) by
> following command and created a below flow entries in bridge.

The manpage is describing the default behavior when OpenFlow features
are not in use, which is also the behavior of the "OFPP_NORMAL"
action.  When you write OpenFlow rules by hand, you override this
default behavior.