ovs-ctl: Make "force-reload-kmod" warn when DHCP clients must be restarted.

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

diff --git a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in
index d1d82c5..fdaa037 100644 (file)
--- a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in
+++ b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in
@@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ as a CIDR block (e.g. \fB2001:db8:3c4d:1::/64\fR).
 When \fBdl_type\fR is 0x86dd (possibly via shorthand, e.g., \fBipv6\fR
 or \fBtcp6\fR), matches IPv6 flow label \fIlabel\fR.
 .
-.IP \fBnd_target=\fIipv6\fR
+.IP \fBnd_target=\fIipv6\fR[\fB/\fInetmask\fR]
 When \fBdl_type\fR, \fBnw_proto\fR, and \fBicmp_type\fR specify
 IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ICMPv6 type 135 or 136), matches the target address
 \fIipv6\fR.  \fIipv6\fR is in the same format described earlier for the
@@ -886,6 +886,10 @@ processing.
 Does nothing at all.  Any number of bytes represented as hex digits
 \fIhh\fR may be included.  Pairs of hex digits may be separated by
 periods for readability.
+The \fBnote\fR action's format doesn't include an exact length for its
+payload, so the provided bytes will be padded on the right by enough
+bytes with value 0 to make the total number 6 more than a multiple of
+8.
 .
 .IP "\fBmove:\fIsrc\fB[\fIstart\fB..\fIend\fB]\->\fIdst\fB[\fIstart\fB..\fIend\fB]\fR"
 Copies the named bits from field \fIsrc\fR to field \fIdst\fR.
@@ -1098,6 +1102,13 @@ others.  \fIvalue\fR is a number between 0 and 65535, inclusive.  A higher
 have priority over an entry containing wildcards, so it has an implicit 
 priority value of 65535.  When adding a flow, if the field is not specified, 
 the flow's priority will default to 32768.
+.IP
+OpenFlow leaves behavior undefined when two or more flows with the
+same priority can match a single packet.  Some users expect
+``sensible'' behavior, such as more specific flows taking precedence
+over less specific flows, but OpenFlow does not specify this and Open
+vSwitch does not implement it.  Users should therefore take care to
+use priorities to ensure the behavior that they expect.
 .
 .PP
 The \fBadd\-flow\fR, \fBadd\-flows\fR, and \fBmod\-flows\fR commands