You don't want to do that. The controller should always initiate the flow rules on switch connection to ensure stale or unwanted rules aren't present.
If you want to "force" a set of base rules, have ONOS push them to every switch on connection. On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 11:40 AM, Sh j <segu...@gmail.com> wrote: > For example, if an OVS receives a ICMP_reply and it is the destination of > this ICMP_reply, it does not need to send a packet_in to the controller. > So I want to install some flow rules or configure OVS to not send > packet_in messages in this case. > > I am using ONOS as a controller. The problem is that when the OVS connects > to the controller, all flow rules added manually are disappeared. > > Is there any way to force OVS to keep some kind of flow rules and > connecting to the controller does not affect that? > > Thanks > > On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 9:46 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote: > >> On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 01:25:40PM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote: >> > >> > > On May 1, 2018, at 11:21 AM, Sh j <segu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > > >> > > If the destination of a packet be an OVS, is there any way to set the >> OVS to get the packet without sending any packet_in messages to the >> controller for handling this packet? >> > >> > I'm not sure that I understand the question. Are you asking is there a >> way for OVS to send some packets to the controller without sending an >> OpenFlow packet-in? I suppose you could mirror the packet to a system >> through a dedicated port, VLAN, or tunnel. However, if you want to be >> using OpenFlow, packet-in is the natural way for sending packets to a >> controller. >> >> Another way to interpret the question is, "Can I set up a flow without >> receiving a packet-in?" If that's the question, then the answer is >> "yes: the flow table can be modified independent of traffic." >> > > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > disc...@openvswitch.org > https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss > > -- Blue Lang VP, Engineering *| *Veracity 3423 Piedmont Rd NE Suite 400 Atlanta, GA 30305 Cell: (770) 265-1381 <+17702651381> https://www.linkedin.com/in/bluelang/ b...@veracity.io www.veracity.io
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