OpenFlow commands have several idiosyncratic fields that are used in some
cases and ignored in others. Until now, ovs-ofctl has been lax about
allowing some of them in places where they are ignored. This commit
tightens the checks to exactly what is allowed.
Bug #5979.
Reported-by: Reid Price <reid@nicira.com>
When an error is encountered while parsing flows from a file, ovs-ofctl doesn't
print the erroneous flow, so it's not always obvious which flow is causing
the error. Print the flow before the error message to make it clear.
This implements basic multiple table support in ofproto and supporting
libraries and utilities. The design is the same as the one that has been
on the Open vSwitch "wdp" branch for a long time. There is no support for
multiple tables in the software switch implementation (ofproto-dpif), only
a set of hooks for other switch implementations to use.
To allow controllers to add flows in a particular table, Open vSwitch adds
an OpenFlow 1.0 extension called NXT_FLOW_MOD_TABLE_ID.
An upcoming commit will add the ability to load OpenFlow rules into
ovs-controller. Break out string-to-openflow parsing so that
ovs-ofctl and ovs-controller can use the same code.
