On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:53:49AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 03:16:31PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > > Suggested by Isaku Yamahata > > > > Cc: Isaku Yamahata <yamah...@valinux.co.jp? > > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <ho...@verge.net.au> > > I don't think I agree with this idea. There is no incompatibility > between OXM and NXM and in fact the NXM classes are reserved > explicitly in OF1.2 for Nicira use. What's the benefit to omitting > important details from a flow?
Is the implication of this that a parser should just ignore fields that it doesn't understand? The reason that this came up was that I was testing OVS using Ryu and Ryu does strict parsing, complaining bitterly if a field which it doesn't understand is present. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
