- ovs-ofctl:
- "mod-port" command can now control all OpenFlow config flags.
- OpenFlow:
- - Allow general bitwise masking for IPv4 source and destination
- addresses in IPv4 and ARP packets. (Previously, only CIDR masks
+ - Allow general bitwise masking for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in
+ IPv4, IPv6, and ARP packets. (Previously, only CIDR masks
were allowed.)
- Allow support for arbitrary Ethernet masks. (Previously, only
the multicast bit in the destination address could be individually
masked.)
+ - New field OXM_OF_METADATA, to align with OpenFlow 1.1.
- Additional protocols are not mirrored and dropped when forward-bpdu is
false. For a full list, see the ovs-vswitchd.conf.db man page.
- Open vSwitch now sends RARP packets in situations where it previously
coverage counter values, instead of logging them.
-v1.6.0 - xx xxx xxxx
+v1.6.1 - 25 Jun 2012
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+ - Allow OFPP_CONTROLLER as the in_port for packet-out messages.
+
+
+v1.6.0 - 24 Feb 2012
+------------------------
+ *** Internal only release ***
- bonding
- LACP bonds no longer fall back to balance-slb when negotiations fail.
Instead they drop traffic.