[ovs-dev] ovs-dpctl add-flow

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Mar 21 16:03:45 UTC 2014


On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 03:53:59AM -0600, Junguk Cho wrote:
> Hello, can I insert flow datapath with "ovs-dpctl add-flow"

In theory, yes, but it's a bad idea.  As the manpage says:

       The following commands are primarily useful for debugging Open vSwitch.
       The  flow  table entries (both matches and actions) that they work with
       are not OpenFlow flow entries.  Instead, they are different and consid-
       erably simpler flows maintained by the Open vSwitch kernel module.  Use
       ovs-ofctl(8), instead, to work with OpenFlow flow entries.



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