[ovs-dev] Problem adding flows openvswitch

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Tue Sep 18 21:23:41 UTC 2012


On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:24:52PM +0200, Andi wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> thank you for your advices.
> Please find comments inline.
> 
> Regards
> Andi
> On 09/18/2012 07:07 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 06:11:56PM +0200, Andi wrote:
> >>I am having some trouble in adding flow table entries with
> >>openvswitch. I am using nox with some modifications on it and when I
> >>submit flow mod message the switches appear to accept the packet
> >>(all the methods to add the flow entry return 0), but when I use
> >>ovs-dpctl dump-flows br0 it has no flows installed.
> >ovs-dpctl doesn't display OpenFlow flows.  You can't use it this way.
> >
> >ovs-ofctl displays OpenFlow flows.  Use "ovs-ofctl dump-flows" to show
> >the flow table.
> In the dpctl help one finds
> /dump-flows DP            display flows in DP/
> Using this command with off-the shelf Nox it displays all flows.

Is the program named dpctl or ovs-dpctl?  If it's dpctl then you're
not using Open vSwitch but something else.



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