On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 09:48:57AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > This was prompted by a conversation on the openflow-discuss mailing list > where developers of some OpenFlow switches mentioned that they save an > entire copy of raw flows passed in by controllers because of the > possibility that there might be wildcarded 1-bits, e.g. something like > 192.168.1.1/255.255.0.0 instead of 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0. I've always > intended that this not be necessary, but it was never explicitly written > down. This commit starts the process of updating OVS to make this a > requirement, by logging a warning whenever such a NXM or OXM entry is seen, > and by updating the spec in nicira-ext.h to describe my intent. > > I intend to also file a bug report in the ONF tracker for OpenFlow to get > a similar clarification into OpenFlow 1.4. (I don't intend to make this > an error in Open vSwitch unless ONF actually accepts this change.) > > Thanks to Zoltán Lajos Kis, Dan Talayco, Rob Sherwood, and HIDEyuki > Shimonishi for participating in the discussion on openflow-discuss. > > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
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