Add support for parsing and printing OFPFF_* flags.

[sliver-openvswitch.git] / utilities / ovs-ofctl.8.in

diff --git a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in
index 794e458..606aaa9 100644 (file)
--- a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in
+++ b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in
@@ -1054,7 +1054,7 @@ support the following additional options.  These options affect only
 new flows.  Thus, for \fBadd\-flow\fR and \fBadd\-flows\fR, these
 options are always significant, but for \fBmod\-flows\fR they are
 significant only if the command creates a new flow, that is, their
-values do not update existing flows.
+values do not update or affect existing flows.
 .
 .IP "\fBidle_timeout=\fIseconds\fR"
 Causes the flow to expire after the given number of seconds of
@@ -1066,6 +1066,16 @@ Causes the flow to expire after the given number of seconds,
 regardless of activity.  A value of 0 (the default) gives the flow no
 hard expiration deadline.
 .
+.IP "\fBsend_flow_rem\fR"
+Marks the flow with a flag that causes the switch to generate a ``flow
+removed'' message and send it to interested controllers when the flow
+later expires or is removed.
+.
+.IP "\fBcheck_overlap\fR"
+Forces the switch to check that the flow match does not overlap that
+of any different flow with the same priority in the same table.  (This
+check is expensive so it is best to avoid it.)
+.
 .PP
 The \fBdump\-flows\fR, \fBdump\-aggregate\fR, \fBdel\-flow\fR 
 and \fBdel\-flows\fR commands support one additional optional field: