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List:       openvswitch-discuss
Subject:    [ovs-discuss] IP address match fields are not used when EtherType is 0x8847
From:       chan7781 () kettering ! edu (Alison Chan)
Date:       2014-04-28 16:31:08
Message-ID: CABcSDheYLTVNn1q0DmKGsnLcRF0PjGF5Cf8PPYUq-mCosvJihg () mail ! gmail ! com
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I think some controllers will even throw an exception if you try to
match on ip_dst without already specifying dl_type=IP.

2014-04-26 16:40 GMT-04:00 Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>:
> MPLS doesn't include an IP address, so there's nothing to do with that part
> of the match.
>
> On Apr 26, 2014 1:15 PM, "Maurice Qureshi (maquresh)" <maquresh at cisco.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I am installing a flow on OVS 1.6 with following attributes:
>>
>> Match Fields:
>> ==========
>> Input Port = 1
>> EtherType = 0x8847 (MPLS)
>> Src IP = 1.1.1.1
>>
>> Action
>> =====
>> Output port =3
>>
>> The flow does get installed on OVS, but source IP address field is not
>> used. Attached please see the Wireshark capture of FlowMod request and below
>> is flow installed on OVS.
>>
>> ~> sudo ovs-ofctl dump-flows L1
>> NXST_FLOW reply (xid=0x4):
>>  cookie=0x0, duration=580.361s, table=0, n_packets=0, n_bytes=0,
>> idle_age=580, priority=500,mpls,in_port=1 actions=output:3
>> :~>
>>
>> Is this expected? If so, is it because of MPLS tag is not defined in OF1.0
>> match or for some other reason.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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