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| author | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2011-09-19 13:22:16 -0700 |
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| committer | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2011-09-19 13:22:16 -0700 |
| commit | 03a8a29eb87ef21d0e56c200ebe43878ef773d63 (patch) | |
| tree | fd44647dd293de6187c9bbe2d2b22c7b8f9d15cf /utilities | |
| parent | e51df1a05ac15da1d485d32b586743265aaeb8ee (diff) | |
ovs-ofctl: Clarify in_port in manpage.
Suggestion #7370.
Suggested-by: Reid Price <reid@nicira.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'utilities')
| -rw-r--r-- | utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in index 100faf02..f2ed8a48 100644 --- a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in +++ b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in @@ -276,8 +276,13 @@ may be specified to explicitly mark any of these fields as a wildcard. (\fB*\fR should be quoted to protect it from shell expansion.) . .IP \fBin_port=\fIport_no\fR -Matches physical port \fIport_no\fR. Switch ports are numbered as +Matches OpenFlow port \fIport_no\fR. Ports are numbered as displayed by \fBovs\-ofctl show\fR. +.IP +(The \fBresubmit\fR action can search OpenFlow flow tables with +arbitrary \fBin_port\fR values, so flows that match port numbers that +do not exist from an OpenFlow perspective can still potentially be +matched.) . .IP \fBdl_vlan=\fIvlan\fR Matches IEEE 802.1q Virtual LAN tag \fIvlan\fR. Specify \fB0xffff\fR |