[ovs-discuss] could not find the flows in openflow swtich

[Justin Pettit]

On Jul 19, 2010, at 8:51 AM, Waqas Daar wrote:

> When I tried to dump the tables it shows that 
> 
> ./dpctl dump-tables nl:0
> stats_reply (xid=0xd1f2ad7d): flags=none type=3(table)
>  2 tables
>   0: hash2   : wild=0x00000, max=131072, active=0
>                lookup=213458, matched=0
>   1: linear  : wild=0xfffff, max=   100, active=0
>                lookup=213458, matched=0
> 
> And when I tried to dump the flows it shows nothing the flow table 
> 
> ./dpctl dump-flows nl:0
> stats_reply (xid=0x1a2ab00a): flags=none type=1(flow)
> 
> Any idea why flow table is not populating?

You seem to be running commands for the OpenFlow reference.  Are you using the OpenFlow reference implementation or Open vSwitch?  My guess is that you have both installed.  The Open vSwitch command is ovs-dpctl or ovs-ofctl depending on what you want to query.

--Justin