[ovs-discuss] Error trying to add flow with strip_vlan action

[Nikhil Handigol]

I've setup an OVS bridge br0 with the following commands:
$ sudo ovs-vsctl add-br br0
$ sudo ovs-vsctl set bridge br0
protocols=OpenFlow10,OpenFlow11,OpenFlow12,OpenFlow13
$ sudo ovs-vsctl set bridge br0 datapath_type=netdev


I tried to insert the following flow with a strip_vlan action:
$ sudo ovs-ofctl -O OpenFlow13 add-flow br0 "cookie=0x0, table=1,
send_flow_rem
priority=30,vlan_tci=0x0ffe/0x1fff,arp,metadata=0xffffffff00000000,arp_tpa=10.0.0.1
actions=strip_vlan,write_metadata:0xcafecafe00000000,goto_table:2"

I get the following error:
ovs-ofctl: none of the usable flow formats (none) is among the allowed flow
formats (OXM-OpenFlow13)

However when I remove "strip_vlan" from the actions, the flow gets added
correctly. What am I doing wrong?

Here are the relevant versions:
OVS version: 2.3.0 obtained from
http://openvswitch.org/releases/openvswitch-2.3.0.tar.gz

$ ovs-vsctl --version
ovs-vsctl (Open vSwitch) 2.3.0
Compiled Sep 16 2014 16:52:35
DB Schema 7.6.0

$ ovs-ofctl --version
ovs-ofctl (Open vSwitch) 2.3.0
Compiled Sep 16 2014 16:52:33
OpenFlow versions 0x1:0x4

Thanks,
Nikhil
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