[adding ovs-discuss to make sure that the bug report gets seen]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 05:02:57PM -0700, Rob Sherwood wrote:
> Hiya,
> 
> If you aren't familiar, OFTest is a set of conformance tests for
> openflow switches.  We used it heavily at the ONF interop event two
> weeks ago and as a result a few of us have started running it against
> other switches available to us, including OVS.  Fwiw, it's available
> for download from `git clone git://github.com/floodlight/oftest`.
> 
> In any case, the pktact.SingleWildcardMatch and
> pktact.AllExceptOneWildcardMatch tests were failing because it looks
> like OVS (v1.4 release) was  not matching vlan tagged packets when the
> match wildcarded vlan but the dl_vlan value (which should be ignored,
> because it is wildcarded) was non-zero.  We've worked around this in
> OFTest by making sure that the dl_vlan value is zero when vlan is
> wildcarded and now the test passes.
> 
> In other words:
> 
> if (ofp_match->wildcards&OFPFW_DL_VLAN) is true, then the match should
> match both tagged and untagged packets, independent of the value of
> ofp_match->dl_vlan.  OVS (seemingly) only matches tagged packets if
> ofp_match->dl_vlan == 0.
> 
> 
> I thought I would drop you a line just FYI -- it's seems fairly likely
> this is a bug in OVS (albeit, a very minor one), but just in case
> someone is running an older version of OFTest I thought it was worth
> mentioning.
> 
> Hope this information is useful to someone,
> 
> - Rob
> .
> 
> PS If there is any interest in contributing back to OFTest, please let
> me know.  It seems like it might be used to inform some of the tests
> for the ONF testing and interop WG, so it would be great to see more
> participation in that.
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