Thank you Justin. Appreciate the pointer. On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Justin Pettit <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Dec 23, 2014, at 5:39 PM, Ashok Chippa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I used the set-controller command after installing 4 or 5 flows. After > the command, the flows simply disappeared!!! Please see below: > > > > root@ashok-vb:~# ovs-ofctl dump-flows br-int > > NXST_FLOW reply (xid=0x4): > > cookie=0x0, duration=113926.488s, table=0, n_packets=45, n_bytes=4410, > idle_age=30519, hard_age=16, priority=9,icmp,nw_src=1.1.1.1,nw_dst=1.1.1.2 > actions=CONTROLLER:65535 > > cookie=0x0, duration=113916.183s, table=0, n_packets=30, n_bytes=2940, > idle_age=30632, hard_age=16, priority=9,icmp,nw_src=1.1.1.2,nw_dst=1.1.1.1 > actions=CONTROLLER:65535 > > cookie=0x0, duration=114127.663s, table=0, n_packets=102, n_bytes=5236, > idle_age=30524, hard_age=16, priority=0 actions=CONTROLLER:65535 > > cookie=0x0, duration=115138.613s, table=1, n_packets=0, n_bytes=0, > idle_age=65534, hard_age=65534, priority=0 actions=NORMAL > > root@ashok-vb:~# ovs-vsctl set-controller br-int tcp:127.0.0.1:6789 > > root@ashok-vb:~# ovs-ofctl dump-flows br-int > > NXST_FLOW reply (xid=0x4): > > root@ashok-vb:~# ovs-ofctl set-controller 127.0.0.1:6789 > > ovs-ofctl: unknown command 'set-controller'; use --help for help > > root@ashok-vb:~# ovs-vsctl set-controller 127.0.0.1:6789 > > ovs-vsctl: no bridge named 127.0.0.1:6789 > > root@ashok-vb:~# ovs-vsctl set-controller br-int 127.0.0.1:6789 > > 2014-12-24T00:39:06Z|00002|vsctl|WARN|target type "127.0.0.1:6789" is > possibly erroneous > > root@ashok-vb:~# ovs-ofctl dump-flows br-int > > NXST_FLOW reply (xid=0x4): > > cookie=0x0, duration=18.688s, table=0, n_packets=0, n_bytes=0, > idle_age=18, priority=0 actions=NORMAL > > > > From the above output, one can see that I did not deliberately delete > any flows... > > This is expected behavior and documented in the ovs-vswitchd.conf.db man > page: > > controller: set of Controllers > OpenFlow controller set. If unset, then no OpenFlow > controllers > will be used. > > If there are primary controllers, removing all of them > clears > the flow table. If there are no primary controllers, adding > one > also clears the flow table. Other changes to the set of > con‐ > trollers, such as adding or removing a service > controller, > adding another primary controller to supplement an existing > pri‐ > mary controller, or removing only one of two primary > con‐ > trollers, have no effect on the flow table. > > --Justin > > >
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