[ovs-discuss] How to make the flow entry live in flow table permanently?

[Justin Pettit]

As documented in the ovs-ofctl man page, unless you are using an ancient version of OVS, there is no timeout:

       idle_timeout=seconds
              Causes  the  flow to expire after the given number of seconds of
              inactivity.  A value of 0 (the default)  prevents  a  flow  from
              expiring due to inactivity.

       hard_timeout=seconds
              Causes  the  flow  to  expire after the given number of seconds,
              regardless of activity.  A value of 0 (the  default)  gives  the
              flow no hard expiration deadline.

--Justin


On Aug 27, 2012, at 8:25 PM, Kris zhang <zhang.kris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> I want to use ovs-ofctl command to add flow entries to implements ACL rules function, so i hope the flow entries can be stay in the flow table permanently, unless i delete it by using commands.
> so how to do that? if cannot, then are there any other solutions?
> 
> Thanks in advanced,
> Kris
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