On 1/18/24 11:00, Mansuroglu, Zekeriya via discuss wrote: > Hi all, > > I’m using ovs through mininet with OpendayLight. The ovs version is 2.13.8 > and the mininet version is 2.3.0.dev6. I create a network with a single > switch and two hosts. After that I create a flow through the nortboubd > interface of opendaylight that works fine. I can also verify with ovs-ofctl > that the flow is accepted by the switch. I expected that the flow is also > registered in a table in ovsdb, but when I dump the database the flow doesn’t > appear anywhere in the datastore. > > Shouldn’t the flow be registered in one of the table Flow_Table, sFlow or > NetFlow? > > I aimed to use the ovsdb-client to monitor for changes of the flow table > configurations. As I understood ovsdb-client’s monitor command this should be > doable when changes of the flow configurations lead to changes in ovsdb. Is > this approach realistic?
Hi, Zekeriya. OpenFlow rules are not stored in the database, so you can't do that. What you can do is to use OpenFlow monitor instead. ovs-ofctl has a correcponding command. Best regards, Ilya Maximets. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss
