On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:05:37PM +0200, Marco Canini wrote:
> Imagine I want to have a rule that for every matching packet modifies
> just the first byte of the dst ETH address and leaves the rest as is.
> Can I do this in OpenFlow?
> Since version 1.2, set-field uses OXM field value+mask types. However,
> reading from the specs, I am not clear whether the combination of
> set-field and an OXM field value+mask allows for fine-grained
> modifications of header fields.

I don't think you can do this with standardized OpenFlow.  The
set-field action always sets the whole field

The Open vSwitch NXAST_REG_LOAD action can modify part of a field, so
you can do this with Open vSwitch.
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