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authorBen Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>2013-08-06 09:45:07 -0700
committerBen Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>2013-08-06 09:45:07 -0700
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ovs-ofctl: Add "ofp-parse" command for printing OpenFlow from a file.
Test provided by Alex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>. Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
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@@ -370,6 +370,14 @@ response. Reports the total time required. This is a measure of the
maximum bandwidth to \fItarget\fR for round-trips of \fIn\fR-byte
messages.
.
+.SS "Other Commands"
+.
+.IP "\fBofp\-parse\fR \fIfile\fR"
+Reads \fIfile\fR (or \fBstdin\fR if \fIfile\fR is \fB\-\fR) as a
+series of OpenFlow messages in the binary format used on an OpenFlow
+connection, and prints them to the console. This can be useful for
+printing OpenFlow messages captured from a TCP stream.
+.
.SS "Flow Syntax"
.PP
Some \fBovs\-ofctl\fR commands accept an argument that describes a flow or