Thanks Ben.

We don't have a patch. The purpose of the mail was just to find if we are
missing some information related to multidimensional ranges and if it's
implemented already.

--
Usman

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:36:26PM +0500, Usman Ajmal wrote:
> > That's what I am interested in too. For example, I can write a wildcarded
> > rule for a particular subnet say 192.168.2.* where * denotes a wildcarded
> > field but I couldn't find a functionality to specify a particular range,
> say
> > 192.168.2.1 to 192.168.2.100, as Masoud mentioned.
> >
> > An example of such a rule will be something like, "If a packet received
> has
> > an src_ip in the range mentioned above, forward it to port 2 of the
> > switch (action.out_port = 2)".
> >
> >  As far as I know Openflow specification 1.0, also don't talk about this.
> >
> > Am I missing here something?
>
> It's difficult to implement multidimensional range matching cleanly and
> efficiently in the general case.  That's why it isn't implemented.
>
> If you have a clean patch that implements it, we'll look at it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben.
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