On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 11:52:34AM +0800, Jianfeng Tan wrote:
> >On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 11:39:29PM +0800, Jianfeng Tan wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> In the openflow, we set no-flood PodMod operation through openflow 1.0;
> for
> >> later openflow versions, no-flood is dropped.
> >> We can refer to below two macro definitions.
> >>
> >>     #define OFPPC10_ALL (OFPPC_PORT_DOWN | OFPPC10_NO_STP |
> OFPPC_NO_RECV |
> >> \
> >>                          OFPPC10_NO_RECV_STP | OFPPC10_NO_FLOOD |
> >> OFPPC_NO_FWD | \
> >>                          OFPPC_NO_PACKET_IN)
> >>
> >>     #define OFPPC11_ALL \
> >>         (OFPPC_PORT_DOWN | OFPPC_NO_RECV | OFPPC_NO_FWD |
> >> OFPPC_NO_PACKET_IN)
> >>
> >> Would like to know why no-flood is not one of the common flags? Or do we
> >> have any other BKM to supersede such port config?
> >
> >The OpenFlow 1.1 and later specifications don't have a "no flood" bit.
> 
> Thank you for the reply.
> 
> We also notice that it's the OpenFlow protocol (later version) does not
> support
> this bit. But we wonder why it's removed from the protocol? It's useless? Or
> we have an alternative to cover this.

I wasn't involved in the standardization of OpenFlow 1.1, but I'd guess
that groups were intended to replace this feature.
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