On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
> When ovs-vswitchd executes actions on a synthesized packet, that is, on a
> packet that is not being forwarded from any particular port but is being
> generated by ovs-vswitchd itself or by an OpenFlow controller (using a
> OFPT_PACKET_OUT message with an in_port of OFPP_NONE), there is no good
> choice for the in_port to pass to the kernel in the flow in the
> OVS_PACKET_CMD_EXECUTE message.  This commit allows ovs-vswitchd to omit
> the in_port entirely in this case.
>
> This fixes a bug in OFPT_PACKET_OUT: using an in_port of OFPP_NONE would
> cause the packet to be dropped by the kernel, since that's an invalid
> input port.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
> Reported-by: Aaron Rosen <aro...@clemson.edu>

Acked-by: Jesse Gross <je...@nicira.com>
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