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author | Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> | 2013-12-11 10:23:36 +0900 |
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committer | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2013-12-12 18:16:20 -0800 |
commit | 912c19381faa71daa27148ff58f09ee758420fb5 (patch) | |
tree | 8de25a8ba07bcbd3cdbb74187f946c6c2e9e242b /utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in | |
parent | ce3955bed734b7459a8bdb3180284bf35dddaa7b (diff) | |
download | openvswitch-912c19381faa71daa27148ff58f09ee758420fb5.tar.gz |
ovs-ofctl: Update push_mpls documentation
* The ethertype of the packet is always set to
the ethertype of the push_mpls action
* Drop references to unicast and multicast MPLS ethertypes,
in RFC5332 0x8847 and 0x8848 do not always have
those meanings.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in')
-rw-r--r-- | utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in index 6f2382bdb..411ad6479 100644 --- a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in +++ b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in @@ -1195,14 +1195,14 @@ allows isn't supported at the moment.) A priority of zero and the tag of zero are used for the new tag. . .IP \fBpush_mpls\fR:\fIethertype\fR -If the packet does not already contain any MPLS labels, changes the -packet's Ethertype to \fIethertype\fR, which must be either the MPLS -unicast Ethertype \fB0x8847\fR or the MPLS multicast Ethertype -\fB0x8848\fR, and then pushes an initial label stack entry. The label -stack entry's default label is 2 if the packet contains IPv6 and 0 -otherwise, its default traffic control value is the low 3 bits of the -packet's DSCP value (0 if the packet is not IP), and its TTL is copied -from the IP TTL (64 if the packet is not IP). +Changes the packet's Ethertype to \fIethertype\fR, which must be either +\fB0x8847\fR or \fB0x8848\fR, and pushes an MPLS LSE. +.IP +If the packet does not already contain any MPLS labels then an initial +label stack entry is pushed. The label stack entry's label is 2 if the +packet contains IPv6 and 0 otherwise, its default traffic control value is +the low 3 bits of the packet's DSCP value (0 if the packet is not IP), and +its TTL is copied from the IP TTL (64 if the packet is not IP). .IP If the packet does already contain an MPLS label, pushes a new outermost label as a copy of the existing outermost label. |