On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 04:34:24PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> Extend support for layer 3 packets to cover non-IP packets.
> 
> This removes the assumption that the first octet of a layer 3 packet
> indicates the IP protocol version - true for IP (v4 and v6), but not
> for necessarily for other protocols.
> 
> The key motivation for this is to allow forwarding of MPLS packets which
> are technically layer 2.5 rather than 3 but the distinction seems unimportant
> here.
> 
> This relies on datapaths setting OVS_KEY_ATTR_PACKET_ETHERTYPE to
> the ethernet type corresponding to the protocol of layer 3 packets
> on a flow miss.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.hor...@netronome.com>

Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org>
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