I don't think there's a problem.  I'd guess if you looked at the output of 
ovs-ofctl speaking OpenFlow, you'd see the mask as defined in the spec.  
However, we've made the user interface more intuitive to users, so it uses 
normal CIDR masks.

--Justin


On Jan 27, 2012, at 1:11 AM, edward wilson wrote:

> HI,
> I am using openvswitch 1.2.2 on my linux 2.6.38 fedora machine.
> I added following flow on switch 
> 
> ovs-ofctl add-flows br0 "dl_type=0x0800 nw_proto=1 nw_dst=10.0.3.4 
> nw_src=10.1.3.2/8 actions=1"
> 
> Now when i use ovs-ofctl dump-flows br1, it shows
> 
>  cookie=0x0, duration=3.855s, table=0, n_packets=0, n_bytes=0, 
> icmp,nw_dst=10.0.3.4,nw_src=10.0.0.0/8 actions=NORMAL
> 
> 
> Now openvswitch interpret this wildcard mask as CIDR suffix, and it has 
> wildcarded 24 least significant bits, first 8 bits are non-wildcard 
> But as per openflow 1.0 spec wildcard mask is interpreted as CIDR suffix with 
> opposite meaning , i.e suffix of 8 should wildcard least significant 8 bits 
> of ip address.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
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