[ovs-discuss] about flow table

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 03:09:27PM +0530, john paul wrote:
>           I have specific que. about the flow table, why their is 255
> flowtables why not 256 ?

The OpenFlow protocol supports a maximum of 255 flow tables.

>              when i am adding some ports under bridge on which policy it
> decide the flow will go in which table i mean

All packets go through table 0, which can then "resubmit" to other
tables if desirable.