on the change log at the end of the OF1.2 spec. I didn't compare the
specs carefully yet.)
- * Action translation needs some work to transform OpenFlow 1.1
- field modification actions into OpenFlow 1.2+ "set-field"
- actions, because OpenFlow 1.2 dropped support for the OF1.1
- actions.
-
OpenFlow 1.3
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is missing. Support for the software switch is under review.
[optional for OF1.3+]
- * Per-connection event filtering. OF1.3 adopted Open vSwitch's
- existing design for this feature so implementation should be
- easy.
- [required for OF1.3+]
-
* Auxiliary connections. An implementation in generic code might
be a week's worth of work. The value of an implementation in
generic code is questionable, though, since much of the benefit
some kind of "hardware" support, if we judged it useful enough.)
[optional for OF1.3+]
- * MPLS BoS matching. (Included in Simon's MPLS series?)
+ * MPLS BoS matching.
+ Part of MPLS patchset by Simon Horman.
[optional for OF1.3+]
* Provider Backbone Bridge tagging. I don't plan to implement
this (but we'd accept an implementation).
[optional for OF1.3+]
- * Rework tag order. I'm not sure whether we need to do anything
- for this. Part of MPLS patchset by Simon Horman.
+ * Rework tag order.
+ Part of MPLS patchset by Simon Horman.
[required for v1.3+]
* On-demand flow counters. I think this might be a real
[EXT-235]
[optional for OF1.4+]
+General
+-----
+
+ * ovs-ofctl(8) often lists as Nicira extensions features that
+ later OpenFlow versions support in standard ways.
+
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