Yes, that is correct.

*Vasu Dasari*


On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 5:06 PM Ashish Varma <ashishvarma....@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the reply Vasu.
>
> So to clarify, if the rule gets hit, the action would send the packet out
> of port number 1 (since reg0 holds the value 1)?
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 10:28 AM Vasu Dasari <vdas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes. You can use the registers as part of output specification.
>>
>> For example, this following rule works:
>>
>> # If reg0 is 1 and reg1 is 1, then output such packet via reg0
>> # reg0 and reg1 would have been set via learn operations earlier
>> ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 table=4 reg0=1,reg1=1 actions=output:reg0
>>
>> *Vasu Dasari*
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 4:58 PM Ashish Varma <ashishvarma....@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to find the meaning of the following statement in the
>>> ovs-actions man page:
>>>
>>> "Output to a register is an OpenFlow extension introduced in Open
>>> vSwitch 1.3."
>>>
>>> Does this mean that we can specify an action like:
>>> "output:<RegisterName>" and the value of the output port would be taken
>>> from the given register?
>>> (Just like "output:field")
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ashish
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>>
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