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| author | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2014-06-25 12:27:25 -0700 |
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| committer | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2014-06-25 12:27:33 -0700 |
| commit | 4eb58d341fb51c84ffd464e5a38c2e2d87023a08 (patch) | |
| tree | 0562904aaaade17d891e0015a8855159ba2cdacc /utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in | |
| parent | 7b7c2a463d4a56c33bfb8466b8dc3b6de9494991 (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-4eb58d341fb51c84ffd464e5a38c2e2d87023a08.tar.gz | |
ovs-ofctl: Document form of packet parameters to "packet-out".
The syntax is inconvenient but at least it's documented now.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in')
| -rw-r--r-- | utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in index 61a0e0da7..63f4feed9 100644 --- a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in +++ b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in @@ -353,7 +353,8 @@ differences were found. . .IP "\fBpacket\-out \fIswitch in_port actions packet\fR..." Connects to \fIswitch\fR and instructs it to execute the OpenFlow -\fIactions\fR on each \fIpacket\fR. For the purpose of executing the +\fIactions\fR on each \fIpacket\fR. Each \fBpacket\fR is specified as a +series of hex digits. For the purpose of executing the actions, the packets are considered to have arrived on \fIin_port\fR, which may be an OpenFlow port number or name (e.g. \fBeth0\fR), the keyword \fBLOCAL\fR (the preferred way to refer to the OpenFlow |