On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 06:14:34PM +0000, Kyle Mestery (kmestery) wrote: > That last sentence didn't read right to me. How about something like this? > > "Version 1.9 of Open vSwitch includes a number of extensions bringing > many features from later versions of OpenFlow into Open vSwitch." > > Otherwise, looks good and should save time in directing folks to an > answer for a question popping up recently. > > Acked-by: Kyle Mestery <[email protected]>
Thanks, how about this rewrite? --8<--------------------------cut here-------------------------->8-- From: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:09:01 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] FAQ: Update question about OpenFlow version support. We've had a lot of questions about this on the mailing lists recently, and it would be nice to have an authoritative answer to cut and paste. Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> --- FAQ | 19 ++++++++++++++----- 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ index a5c0cb9..9b2a551 100644 --- a/FAQ +++ b/FAQ @@ -661,12 +661,21 @@ Controllers Q: What versions of OpenFlow does Open vSwitch support? -A: Open vSwitch supports OpenFlow 1.0. It also includes a number of - extensions that bring many of the features from later versions of - OpenFlow. Work is underway to provide support for later versions and - can be tracked here: +A: Open vSwitch 1.9 and earlier support only OpenFlow 1.0 (plus + extensions that bring in many of the features from later versions + of OpenFlow). - http://openvswitch.org/development/openflow-1-x-plan/ + Open vSwitch versions 1.10 and later will have experimental support + for OpenFlow 1.2 and 1.3. On these versions of Open vSwitch, the + following command enables OpenFlow 1.0, 1.2, and 1.3 on bridge br0: + + ovs-vsctl set bridge br0 protocols=openflow10,openflow12,openflow13 + + Support for OpenFlow 1.2 and 1.3 is still incomplete. Work to be + done is tracked in OPENFLOW-1.1+ in the Open vSwitch source tree + (also via http://openvswitch.org/development/openflow-1-x-plan/). + When support for a given OpenFlow version is solidly implemented, + Open vSwitch will enable that version by default. Q: I'm getting "error type 45250 code 0". What's that? -- 1.7.2.5 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
