[ovs-discuss] What's the current behaviour when setting max_len=0 in output action?

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Sat Sep 7 03:49:08 UTC 2013


On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 11:46:05AM +0800, Can Zhang wrote:
> I'd like to know what's the behaviour when setting max_len=0 in
> ofp_action_output message. And if I want the switch to send the whole
> packet, what value should I assign?

I believe that max_len=0 causes the packet_in to omit the packet
entirely.  You can use max_len=65535 to send the whole packet.



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