OpenFlow provides the ability to delete flows that match a "strict"
description. This means that wildcards are not active, and thus will
only match a single flow that exactly matches the description. The code
that checks for a match is pretty dumb and still compares the values of
fields that are wildcarded. A recent change added a "tun_id" matching
field, but did not zero out the field when it was supposed to be
ignored, which broke the matching used by strict deletions. This sets
the field regardless of whether the field is wildcarded or not.
Reported-by: Natasha Gude <natasha@nicira.com>
Bug #2775
Add a tun_id field which contains the ID of the encapsulating tunnel
on which a packet was received (0 if not received on a tunnel). Also
add an action which allows the tunnel ID to be set for outgoing
packets. At this point there aren't any tunnel implementations so
these fields don't have any effect.
The matching is exposed to OpenFlow by overloading the high 32 bits
of the cookie as the tunnel ID. ovs-ofctl is capable of turning
on this special behavior using a new "tun-cookie" command but this
command is intentially undocumented to avoid it being used without
a full understanding of the consequences.
OpenFlow 1.0 adds support for matching on IP ToS/DSCP bits.
NOTE: OVS at this point is not wire-compatible with OpenFlow 1.0 until
the final commit in this OpenFlow 1.0 set.
The OpenFlow 1.0 specification supports matching the IP address and
opcode in ARP messages. The datapath already supports this, so this
commit merely exposes that through the OpenFlow module.
NOTE: OVS at this point is not wire-compatible with OpenFlow 1.0
until the final commit in this OpenFlow 1.0 set.
Starting in OpenFlow 0.9, it is possible to match on the VLAN PCP
(priority) field and rewrite the IP ToS/DSCP bits. This check-in
provides that support and bumps the wire protocol number to 0x98.
NOTE: The wire changes come together over the set of OpenFlow 0.9 commits,
so OVS will not be OpenFlow-compatible with any official release between
this commit and the one that completes the set.
When printing a flow, there were two references to "port": one the
interface the packet arrived on and the other the L4 ports. This could
be a bit confusing to new users looking at the output of a command such
as "ovs-ofctl dump-flows". This commit changes the incoming interface
field from "port" to "in_port".
The ability to match the IP addresses in ARP packets allows for fine-grained
control of ARP processing. Some forthcoming changes to allow in-band
control to operate over L3 requires this support if we don't want to
allow overly broad rules regarding ARPs to always be white-listed.
Unfortunately, OpenFlow does not support this sort of processing yet, so
we must treat OpenFlow ARP rules as having wildcarded those L3 fields.