[ovs-discuss] "unknown keyword out_port" after update to 2.5

[Paul Chaignon]

2016-08-10 14:18 GMT+02:00 DEMBLANS Mathieu <demblans.m at mipih.fr>:
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> Hello everyone,
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> After updating from 2.3.1 to 2.5.0, I have an issue I didn’t previously had.
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> When I try to add a new rule containing the “out_port” parameter in ofctl, I obtain a “ovs-ofctl: unknown keyword out_port”
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> An example of the rule:
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> /usr/bin/ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 "cookie=1, table=0, priority=65535, out_port=5, dl_dst=01:00:00:00:00:00/01:00:00:00:00:00, actions=drop"
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> Others rules that doesn’t contain this keyword works well.
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> I look at the documentation and this keyword still exist in the 2.5.0 version, so I don’t understand this error message.
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> Any idea?

The add-flow command does not support this keyword (at least in the
last version), only the dump-* and del-* do.

>From the documentation:

The dump-flows, dump-aggregate, del-flow and del-flows commands support
these additional optional fields:
out_port=port