Owner's Manual

Flow Types

Dell Networking switches support three types of flows:

• ACL

• L2

• L3

The following sections describe the mandatory match fields, optional match fields, mandatory actions,

and optional actions for each flow type.

ACL Flows

Parameter Type Parameters

Mandatory match

fields

None; any of the match parameters can be wildcards.

Optional match

fields

All 12 match fields defined in OpenFlow (OF) 1.0 are supported.

Mandatory actions None.

Optional actions

• set_vlan_id

• set_vlan_pcp

• set_dl_src (set src-mac)

• set_dl_dst (set dst-mac)

• set_nw_tos

• output to one or more switch ports

NOTE: For output action limitations, refer to OpenFlow 1.0 Support.

L3 Flows

Parameter Type Parameters

Mandatory match

fields

• You must specify dl_dst (dst-mac) as the switch’s port mac.

• You must specify dl_type (ether-type) as 0x800.

Optional match

fields

• nw_dst (dst-ip)