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author | Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@ovn.org> | 2017-03-08 17:18:23 -0800 |
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committer | Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@ovn.org> | 2017-03-08 17:23:57 -0800 |
commit | a76a37efec27ac203de8424cbb2c5a81679f3b6c (patch) | |
tree | 8520de52e1674ea73fb2fb8b742b0828450c781d /utilities | |
parent | b80e259f8ee41deebb3708845c4d11fcb8a120b2 (diff) | |
download | openvswitch-a76a37efec27ac203de8424cbb2c5a81679f3b6c.tar.gz |
conntrack: Force commit.
Userspace support for force commit.
Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'utilities')
-rw-r--r-- | utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in index d783f85c7..14db85e73 100644 --- a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in +++ b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in @@ -1037,6 +1037,18 @@ Commit the connection to the connection tracking module. Information about the connection will be stored beyond the lifetime of the packet in the pipeline. Some \fBct_state\fR flags are only available for committed connections. .RE +.IP \fBforce\fR +.RS +A committed connection always has the directionality of the packet +that caused the connection to be committed in the first place. This +is the ``original direction'' of the connection, and the opposite +direction is the ``reply direction''. If a connection is already +committed, but it is in the wrong direction, \fBforce\fR flag may be +used in addition to \fBcommit\fR flag to effectively terminate the +existing connection and start a new one in the current direction. +This flag has no effect if the original direction of the connection is +already the same as that of the current packet. +.RE .IP \fBtable=\fInumber\fR Fork pipeline processing in two. The original instance of the packet will continue processing the current actions list as an untracked packet. An |