On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:33:35AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:13:49AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > Hmm.  This looks like it blindly puts an OFPAT12_SET_FIELD action into
> > other versions of OpenFlow.  I think we have a few options:
> 
> True, but I'm not sure that I understand how it could legitimately occur.

One goal is to support multiple protocols simultaneously on a switch.
Thus, this will happen if a OF1.2 connection adds an OFPAT12_SET_FIELD
action and an OF1.0 connection dumps the flow table.

> [...]
>           How about, detect and return an error?

It seems more useful to report something (ideally something accurate)
than to not report the flow at all.
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