[ovs-discuss] Wildcard and exact match

[Amrane Ait Zeouay]

Ok, thank you all for your advises.
best regards,

2016-08-19 20:08 GMT+02:00 Justin Pettit <jpettit at ovn.org>:

> That's true, and it's how I would write it.  I was trying to emphasize the
> fact that the values there were not relevant, but the f's also munged with
> the first part of the mask, so it didn't really help clarify much.
>
> --Justin
>
>
> > On Aug 19, 2016, at 10:55 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> >
> > Usually we'd write this as dl_dst=01:02:03:00:00:00/ff:ff:ff:00:00:00.
> > That is, it's conventional to write the wildcarded bits as 0s.
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 10:09:31AM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote:
> >> The ovs-ofctl man page has examples.  However, here's another:
> "dl_dst=01:02:03:ff:ff:ff/ff:ff:ff:00:00:00" matches any destination mac
> address that begins with "01:02:03".
> >>
> >> --Justin
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Aug 19, 2016, at 10:06 AM, Amrane Ait Zeouay <
> a.zeouayamran at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> So how can you give me an example of wildcarded match.
> >>>
> >>> On 19 Aug 2016 19:04, "Justin Pettit" <jpettit at ovn.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Aug 19, 2016, at 9:59 AM, Amrane Ait Zeouay <
> a.zeouayamran at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Thank you for your reply, just the last question. How can i add a
> wildcarded match is it like ovs-oftcl add-flow br0
> dl_dst=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00/ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff,actions=output:2
> >>>
> >>> The format looks basically correct, but the match is sort of odd. If
> you specify the all-ones wildcard, it's an exact match, so you don't need
> to specify it; this would have the same effect:
> "dl_dst=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00".  And that seems like an odd MAC address, but I
> don't know your application.
> >>>
> >>> --Justin
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
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