[ovs-discuss] Openvswitch MPLS actions

Dushyant Arora dushyantarora13 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 8 17:20:38 UTC 2013


You can also get it from Simon's github account, I believe:
https://github.com/horms/

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Dushyant Arora
<dushyantarora13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ughhh....Why didn't I read the FAQ....facepalm....I have been trying
> to figure this for days. Thanks a bunch Ben!
>
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
>> No.
>>
>> OpenFlow 1.1 is not supported.
>>
>> Please read the FAQ.
>>
>> Q: What versions of OpenFlow does Open vSwitch support?
>>
>> A: Open vSwitch 1.9 and earlier support only OpenFlow 1.0 (plus
>>    extensions that bring in many of the features from later versions
>>    of OpenFlow).
>>
>>    Open vSwitch versions 1.10 and later will have experimental support
>>    for OpenFlow 1.2 and 1.3.  On these versions of Open vSwitch, the
>>    following command enables OpenFlow 1.0, 1.2, and 1.3 on bridge br0:
>>
>>        ovs-vsctl set bridge br0 protocols=openflow10,openflow12,openflow13
>>
>>    Support for OpenFlow 1.1 is incomplete enough that it cannot yet be
>>    enabled, even experimentally.
>>
>>    Support for OpenFlow 1.2 and 1.3 is still incomplete.  Work to be
>>    done is tracked in OPENFLOW-1.1+ in the Open vSwitch source tree
>>    (also via http://openvswitch.org/development/openflow-1-x-plan/).
>>    When support for a given OpenFlow version is solidly implemented,
>>    Open vSwitch will enable that version by default.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 12:05:50PM -0500, Dushyant Arora wrote:
>>> Hi Ben,
>>>
>>> Are there any special installation instructions if we want to install
>>> a particular openflow version (say only 1.1)?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Dushyant
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
>>> > On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 10:29:12PM +0530, Nikhil wrote:
>>> >> I want to try MPLS with openvswitch, please let me know the git repository
>>> >>  which has MPLS patches init. I am particularly looking for version which
>>> >> support set_mpls_label action.
>>> >
>>> > I think that this is on master in the main repository.
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