[ovs-discuss] What is the role of ovsdb-server and vswitchd?

[Aishwarya]

Thanks a ton! It was very helpful. That will work for me (as long as i don't
have to do ofctl add flow again).

Aish

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 01:21:33PM -0700, Aishwarya wrote:
> > Ok, i get it. So, vswitchd tells the kernel to delete idle flows, but
> > vswitchd itself will still have the flow information right ? i.e. even
> > though the flow gets deleted from the kernel, next time when that flow
> comes
> > to the switch, vswitchd will be able to handle this flow(by adding it t
> teh
> > kernel again), without me having to again configure the flow using
> ovs-ofctl
> > add flow..?
>
> Yes.
>
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