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How to add new matching field #219

Open atockhorn opened 3 years ago

atockhorn commented 3 years ago

I want to add a new 2 byte long matching field, that is only available when a certain ethertype is indicated. I followed the suggestions made in the FAQ for adding a new matching field. Unfortunately, it does not work so far. I try to configure a flow using ovs-ofctl add-flow. The command does know my matching field. In case of a typo or an invalid value it complains as expected. Furthermore, I can see the desired values of my match when I debug the add-flow command, especially the message that is transmitted using openflow. There I can see the ethertype, match field value, masks, vendor id of the experimenter extension and so on. But the issue is that dump-flows does not show the match field. The relevant flow only matches the necessary ethertype. When I test this using mininet, it behaves exactly as dump-flows indicates. What do I miss in my implementation? Any help is highly appreciated.

blp commented 3 years ago

We can't debug code we don't have.

atockhorn commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the fast response. At the moment, the code is not presentable. I will come back later with it. Feel free to close this issue. Kind regards Andreas