[ovs-discuss] ovs flow duration

Alex Wang alexw at nicira.com
Tue Mar 24 21:21:23 UTC 2015


Hey,

I did not see any reason for the second flow to be deleted after 120s.
And you did not config the 'idle_timeout' which could cause the deletion.
So, both flow should be there forever.

Which version of ovs are you using?

Thanks,
Alex Wang,


On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Vinllen Chen <cvinllen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all:
>     I build a small network to test the ping, the topology is showd below:
>
> host1 ---- switch1----switch2 ----host2
> host1 ip: 10.0.0.1
> host2 ip: 10.0.0.2
>     When i use host1 ping host2, and then use host2 ping host1, it works
> ok. Then i use "ovs-ofctl dump-flows switch2" command to show the flows:
> NXST_FLOW reply (xid=0x4):
>  cookie=0x0, duration=1873.140s, table=0, n_packets=1843, n_bytes=180614,
> idle_age=0, priority=1,ip,nw_dst=10.0.0.1 actions=output:1
>  cookie=0x0, duration=118.427s, table=0, n_packets=118, n_bytes=11564,
> idle_age=0, priority=1,ip,nw_dst=10.0.0.2
> actions=mod_dl_dst:d3:97:e5:22:ea:ed,output:2
>     The second flow will disappear when time duration arrival 120s. My
> question is why doesn't the first flow disappear when time arrival 120s ?
>     Thankyou for anyone's relay
> Best wishes.
> Vinllen
>
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