netdev: Deprecate CAPWAP support.

[openvswitch] / vswitchd / vswitch.xml

diff --git a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
index ebbfba8060bd357cc11d2d3859133528cbd33c6e..9504cea4b7560fbaf2291e47630a442867c9011d 100644 (file)
--- a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
+++ b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
@@ -840,6 +840,7 @@
 
         <dt><code>stable</code></dt>
         <dd>
+          <p>Deprecated and slated for removal in February 2013.</p>
           <p>Attempts to always assign a given flow to the same slave
           consistently.  In an effort to maintain stability, no load
           balancing is done.  Uses a similar hashing strategy to
@@ -962,12 +963,10 @@
         </column>
       </group>
 
-      <group title="SLB Configuration">
+      <group title="Rebalancing Configuration">
         <p>
           These settings control behavior when a bond is in
-          <code>balance-slb</code> mode, regardless of whether the bond was
-          intentionally configured in SLB mode or it fell back to SLB mode
-          because LACP negotiation failed.
+          <code>balance-slb</code> or <code>balance-tcp</code> mode.
         </p>
 
         <column name="other_config" key="bond-rebalance-interval"
@@ -1160,6 +1159,17 @@
         cannot be added then Open vSwitch sets this column
         to -1.</p>
       </column>
+
+      <column name="ofport_request">
+        <p>Requested OpenFlow port number for this interface.  The port
+        number must be between 1 and 65279, inclusive.  Some datapaths
+        cannot satisfy all requests for particular port numbers.  When
+        this column is empty or the request cannot be fulfilled, the
+        system will choose a free port.  The <ref column="ofport"/>
+        column reports the assigned OpenFlow port number.</p>
+        <p>The port number must be requested in the same transaction
+        that creates the port.</p>
+      </column>
     </group>
 
     <group title="System-Specific Details">
@@ -1200,6 +1210,21 @@
             IPsec tunnel.
           </dd>
 
+          <dt><code>gre64</code></dt>
+          <dd>
+            It is same as GRE, but it allows 64 bit key. To store higher 32-bits
+            of key, it uses GRE protocol sequence number field. This is non
+            standard use of GRE protocol since OVS does not increment
+            sequence number for every packet at time of encap as expected by
+            standard GRE implementation. See <ref group="Tunnel Options"/>
+            for information on configuring GRE tunnels.
+          </dd>
+
+          <dt><code>ipsec_gre64</code></dt>
+          <dd>
+            Same as IPSEC_GRE except 64 bit key.
+          </dd>
+
           <dt><code>capwap</code></dt>
           <dd>
             An Ethernet tunnel over the UDP transport portion of CAPWAP (RFC
@@ -1208,6 +1233,9 @@
             implemented.  UDP ports 58881 and 58882 are used as the source and
             destination ports respectively.  CAPWAP is currently supported only
             with the Linux kernel datapath with kernel version 2.6.26 or later.
+
+            CAPWAP support is deprecated and will be removed no earlier than
+            February 2013.
           </dd>
 
           <dt><code>patch</code></dt>
@@ -1216,7 +1244,8 @@
           </dd>
 
           <dt><code>null</code></dt>
-          <dd>An ignored interface.</dd>
+          <dd>An ignored interface. Deprecated and slated for removal in
+              February 2013.</dd>
         </dl>
       </column>
     </group>
@@ -1224,7 +1253,8 @@
     <group title="Tunnel Options">
       <p>
         These options apply to interfaces with <ref column="type"/> of
-        <code>gre</code>, <code>ipsec_gre</code>, and <code>capwap</code>.
+        <code>gre</code>, <code>ipsec_gre</code>, <code>gre64</code>,
+        <code>ipsec_gre64</code>, and <code>capwap</code>.
       </p>
 
       <p>
@@ -1350,7 +1380,8 @@
         of the tunnel headers.  Note that this option causes behavior that is
         typically reserved for routers and therefore is not entirely in
         compliance with the IEEE 802.1D specification for bridges.  Default is
-        enabled; set to <code>false</code> to disable.
+        disabled; set to <code>true</code> to enable.  This feature is
+        deprecated and will be removed soon.
       </column>
 
       <group title="Tunnel Options: gre only">
@@ -1702,6 +1733,12 @@
         faulted otherwise.
       </p>
 
+      <p>
+          When operating over tunnels which have no <code>in_key</code>, or an
+          <code>in_key</code> of <code>flow</code>.  CFM will only accept CCMs
+          with a tunnel key of zero.
+      </p>
+
       <column name="cfm_mpid">
         A Maintenance Point ID (MPID) uniquely identifies each endpoint within
         a Maintenance Association.  The MPID is used to identify this endpoint
@@ -1857,7 +1894,7 @@
       <column name="other_config" key="cfm_ccm_pcp"
         type='{"type": "integer", "minInteger": 1, "maxInteger": 7}'>
         When set, the CFM module will apply a VLAN tag to all CCMs it generates
-        with the given PCP value.  The VLAN ID of the tag is governed by the
+        with the given PCP value, the VLAN ID of the tag is governed by the
         value of <ref column="other_config" key="cfm_ccm_vlan"/>. If
         <ref column="other_config" key="cfm_ccm_vlan"/> is unset, a VLAN ID of
         zero is used.