[ovs-discuss] How can i let the flow entries don't disppear after restart the ovs?

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Feb 1 06:29:26 UTC 2013


On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 02:24:07PM +0800, Kris zhang wrote:
> First i created a bridge br0, and then I added some flow entries into br0
> (for example: ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 dl_vlan=10,action=normal). but i found
> the flow entries disppearred after i restart the ovs. (i use the command
> ovs-ofctl dump-flows br0). How can i let the flow entries persistence in
> OVS-DB even if the computer reboot?

The usual way would be to use an OpenFlow controller.  If this is the
only feature you need then you can use ovs-controller with the
--with-flows option.

Also, OVSDB doesn't store flows.


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