Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
FAQ: Mention hairpinning under actions=in_port.
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
  • Loading branch information
joestringer authored and blp committed Feb 19, 2014
1 parent cd31d50 commit 6620f92
Showing 1 changed file with 3 additions and 3 deletions.
6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions FAQ
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -1403,9 +1403,9 @@ A: Yes, OpenFlow requires a switch to ignore attempts to send a packet
even be convenient, e.g. it is often the desired behavior in a flow
that forwards a packet to several ports ("floods" the packet).

Sometimes one really needs to send a packet out its ingress port.
In this case, output to OFPP_IN_PORT, which in ovs-ofctl syntax is
expressed as just "in_port", e.g.:
Sometimes one really needs to send a packet out its ingress port
("hairpin"). In this case, output to OFPP_IN_PORT, which in
ovs-ofctl syntax is expressed as just "in_port", e.g.:

ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 in_port=2,actions=in_port

Expand Down

0 comments on commit 6620f92

Please sign in to comment.