Hi!
I have a question regarding some difference between OpenFlow protocol
version 1.3.5 and vanilla Open vSwitch implementation version 2.5.0.
If someone would like to use fast failover type group without bucket
liveness set, then it would return an OFPERR_OFPGMFC_INVALID_GROUP error
code.
However, based on the protocol (1.3.5) invalid group error should be
returned only in the following two cases:
1) "If a specified group type is invalid (ie: includes fields such as
weight that are unde ned for the specified group type) then the switch
must refuse to add the group entry and must send an ofp_error_msg with
OFPET_GROUP_MOD_FAILED type and OFPGMFC_INVALID_GROUP code."
2) "If a delete request includes some buckets in the Group-Mod message,
then the switch must return an ofp_error_msg with OFPET_GROUP_MOD_FAILED
type and OFPGMFC_INVALID_GROUP code."
The particular piece of code from ofp-util.c in
ofputil_decode_group_mod, l:8878 is the following:
case OFPGT11_FF:
if (!ofputil_bucket_has_liveness(bucket)) {
return OFPERR_OFPGMFC_INVALID_GROUP;
}
break;
Is the above error code handling not written into the protocol by
purpose or by accident, or is it just not explicitly determined by the
protocol how to handle fast failover type groups without bucket liveness?
Thanks in advance!
Kind regards
Miklos
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