Re: [pox-dev] Delete flows from queue when its full

2013-05-07 Thread Sayed Qaiser Ali Shah Shah
Thanks Murphy I will try this. Actually I am doing this to drop flows of users when flows from some priority users arrive so that their traffic can pass with no delay. This is really helpful I will try this. On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Murphy McCauley murphy.mccau...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: [pox-dev] Delete flows from queue when its full

2013-05-06 Thread Murphy McCauley
Certainly you can delete flows by sending an ofp_flow_mod. Selecting which ones you want to delete is the potentially tricky part and will depend on which ones you want to delete and why. Potentially you can just pay attention to how many you've installed and how many have expired (by setting

Re: [pox-dev] Delete flows from queue when its full

2013-05-02 Thread Murphy McCauley
It sounds like you're talking about monitoring and manipulating the contents of queues, which is a very fine-grained operation that must operate at very small timescales. This isn't addressed by OpenFlow and probably isn't suitable for a remote controller. OpenFlow allows for assigning

Re: [pox-dev] Delete flows from queue when its full

2013-05-02 Thread Sayed Qaiser Ali Shah Shah
Thanks for your reply. So, is it possible to delete flow entries from OVS flow table when it reached some limit by sending some sort of command from POX controller? On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 3:32 AM, Murphy McCauley murphy.mccau...@gmail.comwrote: It sounds like you're talking about monitoring

Re: [pox-dev] Delete flows from queue when its full

2013-05-02 Thread Murphy McCauley
On May 2, 2013, at 3:52 PM, Sayed Qaiser Ali Shah Shah wrote: Thanks for your reply. So, is it possible to delete flow entries from OVS flow table when it reached some limit by sending some sort of command from POX controller? When what reaches a limit? The flow table size? Or are you

Re: [pox-dev] Delete flows from queue when its full

2013-05-02 Thread Sayed Qaiser Ali Shah Shah
No no, I got you point regarding queues. I am talking about flow entries in flow table e.g lets say that flow entries reach 40 then is there anyway to delete entries from flow table by sending some sort of command from remote controller. and how that command should be initiated? On Fri, May 3,