From 03a8a29eb87ef21d0e56c200ebe43878ef773d63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Pfaff Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:22:16 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] ovs-ofctl: Clarify in_port in manpage. Suggestion #7370. Suggested-by: Reid Price --- utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in index 100faf02..f2ed8a48 100644 --- a/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in +++ b/utilities/ovs-ofctl.8.in @@ -276,8 +276,13 @@ may be specified to explicitly mark any of these fields as a wildcard. (\fB*\fR should be quoted to protect it from shell expansion.) . .IP \fBin_port=\fIport_no\fR -Matches physical port \fIport_no\fR. Switch ports are numbered as +Matches OpenFlow port \fIport_no\fR. Ports are numbered as displayed by \fBovs\-ofctl show\fR. +.IP +(The \fBresubmit\fR action can search OpenFlow flow tables with +arbitrary \fBin_port\fR values, so flows that match port numbers that +do not exist from an OpenFlow perspective can still potentially be +matched.) . .IP \fBdl_vlan=\fIvlan\fR Matches IEEE 802.1q Virtual LAN tag \fIvlan\fR. Specify \fB0xffff\fR -- 2.30.2