[ovs-dev] [OpenFlow 0.9 3/7] ofproto: Use active time for Flow Expiration duration (OpenFlow 0.9)

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu Nov 19 17:41:07 UTC 2009


Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com> writes:

> In pre-0.9 versions of OpenFlow, the duration field in the flow
> expiration message was the amount of time that the flow was in a table.
> If a long idle timeout was set, it could be difficult to determine how
> long the flow was actually active.  In OpenFlow 0.9, this was changed to
> only be the length of time that the flow was active.

Looks good.




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