On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 04:20:45AM -0700, nickcooper-zhangtonghao wrote: > Signed-off-by: nickcooper-zhangtonghao > <nickcooper-zhangtong...@opencloud.tech>
Thanks for pointing out the omission. I ended up doing significant further work here. I applied the following final patch. --8<--------------------------cut here-------------------------->8-- From: nickcooper-zhangtonghao <nickcooper-zhangtong...@opencloud.tech> Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 04:20:45 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] ovn-nbctl: Improve ovn-nbctl manpage Signed-off-by: nickcooper-zhangtonghao <nickcooper-zhangtong...@opencloud.tech> [b...@ovn.org added further improvements] Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> --- ovn/utilities/ovn-nbctl.8.xml | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/ovn/utilities/ovn-nbctl.8.xml b/ovn/utilities/ovn-nbctl.8.xml index 7cd515f..2cbd6e0 100644 --- a/ovn/utilities/ovn-nbctl.8.xml +++ b/ovn/utilities/ovn-nbctl.8.xml @@ -169,14 +169,38 @@ <dt><code>lsp-set-addresses</code> <var>port</var> [<var>address</var>]...</dt> <dd> - Sets the addresses associated with <var>port</var> to - <var>address</var>. Each <var>address</var> should be either an - Ethernet address or an Ethernet address followed by IP addresses - (separated by space and quoted to form a single command-line - argument). The special form <code>unknown</code> is also valid. - Multiple Ethernet addresses or Ethernet+IPs combinations may be set. - If no <var>address</var> argument is given, <var>port</var> will have - no addresses associated with it. + <p> + Sets the addresses associated with <var>port</var> to + <var>address</var>. Each <var>address</var> should be one of the + following: + </p> + + <dl> + <dt>an Ethernet address, optionally followed by a space and one or more IP addresses</dt> + <dd> + OVN delivers packets for the Ethernet address to this port. + </dd> + + <dt><code>unknown</code></dt> + <dd> + OVN delivers unicast Ethernet packets whose destination MAC address + is not in any logical port's addresses column to ports with address + <code>unknown</code>. + </dd> + + <dt><code>dynamic</code></dt> + <dd> + Use this keyword to make <code>ovn-northd</code> generate a + globally unique MAC address and choose an unused IPv4 address with + the logical port's subnet and store them in the port's + <code>dynamic_addresses</code> column. + </dd> + </dl> + + <p> + Multiple addresses may be set. If no <var>address</var> argument is + given, <var>port</var> will have no addresses associated with it. + </p> </dd> <dt><code>lsp-get-addresses</code> <var>port</var></dt> -- 2.1.3 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev