On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Georgios Androulidakis
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 1) Is there a limit on the number of flows that can be held in the Flow
> Table?
> Is this related to the implementation e.g. software switch vs. hardware (NEC
> IP8800/S3640) ?

Yes and yes.

> 2) Is it possible to configure the Flow Table to send a statistics message
> to the controller for a particular flow when it is about to expire
> (something similar to what Cisco NetFlow does) ?

Yes.  Turn on "flow removed" messages.

> 3) Is it possible to periodically export the full flow table to the
> controller ?

Yes.  Use a "flow statistics" query message.

> 4) Can I query the flow table using the values of counters in order to get
> statistics for specific flows.
> i.e. get me the flows that have 20 packets?

No.
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