[ovs-discuss] Why no-flood is not supported in later openflow versions?

[Ben Pfaff]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 11:39:29PM +0800, Jianfeng Tan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In the openflow, we set no-flood PodMod operation through openflow 1.0; for
> later openflow versions, no-flood is dropped.
> We can refer to below two macro definitions.
> 
>     #define OFPPC10_ALL (OFPPC_PORT_DOWN | OFPPC10_NO_STP | OFPPC_NO_RECV |
> \
>                          OFPPC10_NO_RECV_STP | OFPPC10_NO_FLOOD |
> OFPPC_NO_FWD | \
>                          OFPPC_NO_PACKET_IN)
> 
>     #define OFPPC11_ALL \
>         (OFPPC_PORT_DOWN | OFPPC_NO_RECV | OFPPC_NO_FWD |
> OFPPC_NO_PACKET_IN)
> 
> Would like to know why no-flood is not one of the common flags? Or do we
> have any other BKM to supersede such port config?

The OpenFlow 1.1 and later specifications don't have a "no flood" bit.