[ovs-discuss] ovs-ofctl dump-tables and dump-flows inconsistency?

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 09:34:27PM -0800, Ashok Chippa wrote:
> root at ashok-vb:/home/achippa/firewall# ovs-ofctl dump-tables br-int
> OFPST_TABLE reply (xid=0x2): 254 tables
>   0: classifier: wild=0x3fffff, max=1000000, active=11
>                lookup=1170, matched=819
> ...
> ...
> 
> The above output shows 11 active flows in table 0... However:
> 
> root at ashok-vb:/home/achippa/firewall# ovs-ofctl dump-flows br-int
> NXST_FLOW reply (xid=0x4):
>  cookie=0x0, duration=2997.087s, table=0, n_packets=0, n_bytes=0,
> idle_age=2997, priority=0 actions=CONTROLLER:65535
> root at ashok-vb:/home/achippa/firewall#
> 
> Shows only 1 flow instead of all 11 flows!!! (My packets are hitting flows
> that I am not able to dump)...
> 
> What's wrong here? Is the code assuming that the flow with
> actions=CONTROLLER is the last flow? Appreciate your help.

What version of OVS are you using?