[ovs-discuss] ovs-ofctl dump-flows command error : ***parse error***

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 10:41:47AM +0800, Dickens Yeh wrote:
> 2016-04-14 2:40 GMT+08:00 Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 05:17:03PM +0800, Dickens Yeh wrote:
> > > I have use the tool ovs-ofctl to dump flows.
> > > When I dump, if the flow have match the nw_proto with 17, it shown
> > ***parse
> > > error*** like this.
> > >
> > > ovs-ofctl dump-flows tcp:192.168.130.74:6633 -O OpenFlow13
> > > 2016-04-13T08:54:43Z|00001|ofp_util|WARN|OFPST_FLOW reply bad match
> > > OFPST_FLOW reply (OF1.3) (xid=0x2): flags=[more] ***parse error***
> > > OFPST_FLOW reply (OF1.3) (xid=0x2):
> > >  cookie=0x4ee8, duration=3572.078s, table=0, n_packets=0, n_bytes=0,
> >
> > Can you tell us how to reproduce the problem?  What version of Open
> > vSwitch is this?
> >
> 
> I use a hardware switch ( from Brocade ), and use the following command to
> add the flow entry.
> the version of Open vSwitch is 2.5.0, and also the version 2.5.9 have same
> problem.

Please ask Brocade for support with Brocade hardware switches.

If you can reproduce this with the Open vSwitch software switch, I'll
look into it.