ovs-ofctl: Add "packet-out" command.

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

diff --git a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in
index 606aaa9..afd86c5 100644 (file)
--- a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in
+++ b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in
@@ -216,6 +216,15 @@ For this command, an exit status of 0 means that no differences were
 found, 1 means that an error occurred, and 2 means that some
 differences were found.
 .
+.IP "\fBpacket\-out \fIswitch in_port actions packet\fR..."
+Connects to \fIswitch\fR and instructs it to execute the OpenFlow
+\fIactions\fR on each \fIpacket\fR.  For the purpose of executing the
+actions, the packets are considered to have arrived on \fIin_port\fR,
+which may be an OpenFlow assigned port number, an OpenFlow port name
+(e.g. \fBeth0\fR), the keyword \fBlocal\fR for the OpenFlow ``local''
+port \fBOFPP_LOCAL\fR, or the keyword \fBnone\fR to indicate that the
+packet was generated by the switch itself.
+.
 .SS "OpenFlow Switch Monitoring Commands"
 .
 .IP "\fBsnoop \fIswitch\fR"