[ovs-discuss] surprising effects with exit v's drop

[O Mahony, Billy]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:blp at nicira.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 9:17 PM
> To: O Mahony, Billy
> Cc: discuss at openvswitch.org
> Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] surprising effects with exit v's drop
> 
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 02:46:59PM +0000, O Mahony, Billy wrote:
> > I am getting very surprising (to me at least) effects with the
> > following flows installed.
> >
> > I am seeing packets forwarded when I expect them to be dropped and
> > dropped when I expect them to be forwarded.
> 
> I'm trying to interpret your report.  Is the following correct?
> 
>         * When "write_actions" adds an output action, and the pipeline
>           ends with an "exit" action, no output actually occurs.
> 
>         * When "write_actions" adds an output action, and the pipeline
>           ends with "drop", output does occur.

Hi Ben. Yes, exactly.