[ovs-discuss] arbitrary netmask

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 03:20:25PM +0000, AMER wrote:
> I am working in mininet v 2.0 and OVS v 1.10  and POX with openflow.nicira
> I am trying to do an experiemnt using arbitrary netmask as the following match:
>  
>       msg1 = nx.nx_flow_mod()
>        msg1.idle_timeout = 100
>       msg1.hard_timeout = 120
>       msg1.match.eth_type = packet.IP_TYPE
>       msg1.match.ip_dst = "10.0.0.4/0.0.0.255"
>       msg1.priority = 65001
>       msg1.actions.append(of.ofp_action_output(port = 1))
>       core.openflow.sendToDPID(1, msg1)
>  
> But i am facing Runtimerror Netmask is not CIDR compatible.

This doesn't sound like an OVS problem (OVS supports arbitrary
netmasks).  It's probably a bug or a missing feature in POX or
openflow.nicira.