When \fBdl_type\fR and \fBnw_proto\fR take other values, the values of
these settings are ignored (see \fBFlow Syntax\fR above).
.
+.IP \fBtable=\fInumber\fR
+If specified, limits the flow manipulation and flow dump commands to
+only apply to the table with the given \fInumber\fR.
+\fInumber\fR is a number between 0 and 254, inclusive.
+.
+Behavior varies if \fBtable\fR is not specified. For flow table
+modification commands without \fB\-\-strict\fR, the switch will choose
+the table for these commands to operate on. For flow table
+modification commands with \fB\-\-strict\fR, the command will operate
+on any single matching flow in any table; it will do nothing if there
+are matches in more than one table. The \fBdump-flows\fR and
+\fBdump-aggregate\fR commands will gather statistics about flows from
+all tables.
+.IP
+When this field is specified in \fBadd-flow\fR, \fBadd-flows\fR,
+\fBmod-flows\fR and \fBdel-flows\fR commands, it activates a Nicira
+extension to OpenFlow, which as of this writing is only known to be
+implemented by Open vSwitch.
+.
.PP
The following shorthand notations are also available:
.
The \fBdump\-flows\fR and \fBdump\-aggregate\fR commands support an
additional optional field:
.
-.IP \fBtable=\fInumber\fR
-If specified, limits the flows about which statistics are gathered to
-those in the table with the given \fInumber\fR. Tables are numbered
-as shown by the \fBdump\-tables\fR command.
-.
-If this field is not specified, or if \fInumber\fR is given as
-\fB255\fR, statistics are gathered about flows from all tables.
-.
.SS "Table Entry Output"
.
The \fBdump\-tables\fR and \fBdump\-aggregate\fR commands print information