> On Nov 6, 2013, at 5:32 PM, Anu Mercian <anumerc...@live.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Jarno,
> 
> Thank you very much for the reply. 
> 
> 1. I want to recognize a new routing scheme over Ethertype, so keeping 
> dl_type as ethertype, I want to add a new field that recognizes the new 
> routing protocol. In this case, which files of ovs-ofctl do I have to modify?
> 
> 2. Another way of seeing this is, as of now (as per man pages of ovs-ofctl), 
> nw_proto recognizes ip (0x0800), ipv6 (0x86dd), arp (0x0806) and rarp 
> (0x8035), what if I want to recognize another protocol (say 0x0802), do I 
> have to modify the ovs-ofctl.c file?

You can match on any ethertype you want. In your case you would match on 
"dl_type=0x0802". Matching anything within a new ethertype, however, is not 
possible.

  Jarno

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