If your definition of "hybrid switch" is "implements NORMAL action",
then OVS is a hybrid switch.

On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 10:52:13AM +0530, Sumitha Ramesh wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> First of all thanks for your reply.
> When flow with NORMAL action is added, OVS is performing normal switching.
> When Openflow controller is connected to OVS, it performs openflow pipeline
> process.
> So I assumed OVS is a openflow hybrid switch.
> Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 9:57 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 06:29:04PM +0530, Sumitha Ramesh wrote:
> > > Is OVS supports both openflow-hybrid mode and openflow mode? If yes, how
> > to
> > > configure OVS to openflow-hybrid mode?
> > > Im new to OVS, any help will be appreciated.
> >
> > OVS is just OVS and doesn't have two modes.
> >
> > (Furthermore, the Open Networking Foundation's Hybrid Working Group
> > defined a couple of different categories of hybrid switches, and OVS did
> > not fall into any of the categories.  So it's not even clear that OVS is
> > a hybrid switch.)
> >
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