ovs-ofctl: Adding support for table ID.

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

diff --git a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in
index 54d222a..a3466da 100644 (file)
--- a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in
+++ b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in
@@ -329,6 +329,22 @@ as a decimal number between 0 and 255, inclusive.
 When \fBdl_type\fR and \fBnw_proto\fR take other values, the values of
 these settings are ignored (see \fBFlow Syntax\fR above).
 .
+.IP \fBtable=\fInumber\fR
+If specified, limits the flow manipulation and flow dump commands to 
+only apply to the table with the given \fInumber\fR.  
+\fInumber\fR is a number between 0 and 31, inclusive.
+.
+If this field is not specified, for \fBadd-flow\fR, \fBadd-flows\fR, 
+\fBmod-flows\fR and \fBdel-flows\fR commands, the switch will choose
+the table for these commands to operate on; for \fBdump-flows\fR and
+\fBdump-aggregate\fR commands, statistics are gathered about flows 
+from all tables.
+.IP
+When this field is specified in \fBadd-flow\fR, \fBadd-flows\fR, 
+\fBmod-flows\fR and \fBdel-flows\fR commands, it will activate a 
+Nicira extension to OpenFlow, which as of this writing is only 
+known to be implemented by Open vSwitch.
+.
 .PP
 The following shorthand notations are also available:
 .
@@ -497,17 +513,6 @@ and \fBdel\-flows\fR commands support one additional optional field:
 \fBout_port=\fIport\fR
 If set, a matching flow must include an output action to \fIport\fR.
 .
-.PP
-The \fBdump\-flows\fR and \fBdump\-aggregate\fR commands support an
-additional optional field:
-.
-.IP \fBtable=\fInumber\fR
-If specified, limits the flows about which statistics are gathered to
-those in the table with the given \fInumber\fR.  Tables are numbered
-as shown by the \fBdump\-tables\fR command.
-.
-If this field is not specified, or if \fInumber\fR is given as
-\fB255\fR, statistics are gathered about flows from all tables.
 .
 .SS "Table Entry Output"
 .