We've had a lot of questions about this on the mailing lists recently, and it would be nice to have an authoritative answer to cut and paste.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> --- FAQ | 21 ++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ index a5c0cb9..57ef054 100644 --- a/FAQ +++ b/FAQ @@ -661,12 +661,23 @@ Controllers Q: What versions of OpenFlow does Open vSwitch support? -A: Open vSwitch supports OpenFlow 1.0. It also includes a number of - extensions that bring many of the features from later versions of - OpenFlow. Work is underway to provide support for later versions and - can be tracked here: +A: Open vSwitch 1.9 and earlier support only OpenFlow 1.0. Open + vSwitch also includes a number of extensions that bring many of the + features from later versions of OpenFlow. - http://openvswitch.org/development/openflow-1-x-plan/ + Open vSwitch versions 1.10 and later will have experimental support + for OpenFlow 1.2 and 1.3. On these version of Open vSwitch, use the + command + + ovs-vsctl set bridge br0 protocols=openflow10,openflow12,openflow13 + + to enable OpenFlow 1.0, 1.2, and 1.3 on bridge br0. + + Work remains to be done. The work to be done is tracked in the + file OPENFLOW-1.1+ in the Open vSwitch source tree (also via + http://openvswitch.org/development/openflow-1-x-plan/). When + support for a given OpenFlow version is solidly implemented, Open + vSwitch will enable that version by default. Q: I'm getting "error type 45250 code 0". What's that? -- 1.7.10.4 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
