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| author | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2012-05-22 22:06:03 -0700 |
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| committer | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2012-06-12 21:19:22 -0700 |
| commit | c08201d6645520f384bbfee3b490b99af8f2c149 (patch) | |
| tree | 3987c6448820cd39844d056c9741b3a3150f131f /utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in | |
| parent | 410698cf7d0c9364a2ecb61b692e60da737bec78 (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-c08201d6645520f384bbfee3b490b99af8f2c149.tar.gz | |
Allow general masking of IPv4 addresses rather than just CIDR masks.
OF1.1 and later make these fields fully maskable so we might as well also.
Reviewed-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 | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in index 085a2c258..4d34bd461 100644 --- a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in +++ b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in @@ -418,7 +418,9 @@ which may be specified as an IP address or host name \fInetmask\fR allows restricting a match to an IPv4 address prefix. The netmask may be specified as a dotted quad (e.g. \fB192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0\fR) or as a CIDR block -(e.g. \fB192.168.1.0/24\fR). +(e.g. \fB192.168.1.0/24\fR). Open vSwitch 1.8 and later support +arbitrary dotted quad masks; earlier versions support only CIDR masks, +that is, the dotted quads that are equivalent to some CIDR block. .IP When \fBdl_type=0x0806\fR or \fBarp\fR is specified, matches the \fBar_spa\fR or \fBar_tpa\fR field, respectively, in ARP packets for |