[ovs-discuss] Is of-ctl add-flow persistent across reboots ?

[Ben Pfaff]

OpenFlow switches generally consider flows to be "soft state".  The
controller is expected to install whatever flows are needed.  If you
need persistent flows, using a controller is the typical way.

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 06:15:19PM +0100, Jannis Ohms wrote:
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> Ok 
> Are there any reasons Why this design was chosen?
> Are there other ways to persist a flow in OVS ?
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> Am 10.02.17 17:51 schrieb Guru Shetty  <guru at ovn.org>:
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> > On 10 February 2017 at 04:43, Jannis Ohms <jannis.ohms2 at ostfalia.de> wrote:
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> > > I am currently using a setup consisting of 2 bridges per switch.
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> > > Bridge 0 is configured to use an SDN controller
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> > > Bridge 1 uses a single flow which contains a single flow which uses the normal action to enable classic forwarding.
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> > > I added the flow using ovs-ofctl, the hard and idle timeouts are both 0 the fail-mode of the bridge is secure.
> > > The flow dose not persist across restarts.
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> > > Is this normal or is this a problem of my NOS ?
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> > This is normal.
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> > > greethings
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> > > Jannis
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