Owner's Manual

Parameter Type Parameters

• All fields other than the ones listed in “Mandatory match fields” and “Optional

match fields” must be wildcards.

Mandatory actions

• You must specify set_dl_src (set src-mac) as the port mac (local mac) for the

swtich.

• set_dl_dst (set dst-mac)

• Single OFPAT_OUTPUT action to a switch port.

Optional actions OFPAT_SET_VLAN is optional for OpenFlow (OF) ports and mandatory for OF

virtual local area networks (VLANs).

L2 Flows

Parameter Type Parameters

Mandatory match

fields

• dl_vlan (input vlan id)

• dl_dst (dst-mac)

Optional match

fields

All fields other than dl_vlan and dl_dst must be wildcards.

Mandatory actions Single OFPAT_OUTPUT action to a switch port.

Optional actions None.

Max Limits

This section defines the maximum number of permitted flow types. The number of available flow types

varies depending on the type of flow.

• You can provision up to 16 OF instances on each switch.

• The number of flows supported on each switch depends on the flow type.

• OF flow types can be combined — for example, the following flow combination is supported: 256

ACL flows, 48,000 L2 flows, and 6,000 L3 flows.

Flow Type Max Limit

ACL 256 or 512 (depending on ACL content addressable

memory [CAM] carving)

L2/MAC 48,000

L3/Route 6,000