For idle-timeout, I was doing some tests by sending some packets periodically after some variable delay to see if the flow for those packets times out.
*Turns out that if I send the same packet after some short delays again and again and then wait a long while*, *the flow doesn't get removed* even though I can see from dpctl dump-flows that no new packet has been received in that time period. I have put the results from dpctl dump-flows below: As you can see that 2 sec have passed since this flow rule has been created and n_packets = 6 with idle timeout value=1 cookie=0, duration_sec=2s, duration_nsec=632000000s, table_id=0, priority=65535, n_packets=6, n_bytes=324, idle_timeout=1,hard_timeout=0,tcp,in_port=2,dl_vlan=0xffff,dl_vlan_pcp=0x00,dl_src=00:00:00:00:00:06,dl_dst=00:00:00:00:00:01,nw_src=10.0.0.6,nw_dst=10.0.0.1,nw_tos=0x00,tp_src=7000,tp_dst=7000,actions=mod_dl_dst:00:00:00:00:00:01,output:1 Now after 4 sec the number of packets is still 6 but the entry has not timed out even though about 2 sec have passed which is greater than the idle_timeout duration cookie=0, duration_sec=4s, duration_nsec=516000000s, table_id=0, priority=65535, n_packets=6, n_bytes=324, idle_timeout=1,hard_timeout=0,tcp,in_port=2,dl_vlan=0xffff,dl_vlan_pcp=0x00,dl_src=00:00:00:00:00:06,dl_dst=00:00:00:00:00:01,nw_src=10.0.0.6,nw_dst=10.0.0.1,nw_tos=0x00,tp_src=7000,tp_dst=7000,actions=mod_dl_dst:00:00:00:00:00:01,output:1 I am running the pox l3 learning switch here for some basic testing. The flow gets removed just after 5 seconds of receiving nothing even though I haven't set any hard timeout value and idle_timeout value of 1 sec. Regards, Shayan Saeed
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