Hi, I have some confusion regarding difference between LOCAL and NORMAL action. My [current] understanding is LOCAL refers to host's TCP/IP stack while NORMAL states "Process packets using traditional non-Openflow Pipeline of the switch".
What I understand from it is that NORMAL action should only be used for packets passing through switch while LOCAL for packets with switch IP as their destination IP, right? Now, my question is, what if I setup specify NORMAL action for a packet that would've normally gone to the switch host stack? Conversely, what if I specify LOCAL action for a packet which wasn't destined for switch? What about packets destined for switch but not IP packets, like say, UDLD packets? I initially thought NORMAL was a superset of LOCAL and meant "fwd or send to host stack", but spec seems to restrict NORMAL to just forwarding pipeline and make NORMAL/LOCAL apply to mutually exclusive scenarios. Regards, Vishal Thapar. _______________________________________________ openflow-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/openflow-discuss
