[ovs-discuss] A tool to feel-up flow-tables in ofproto

Sara Gittlin sara.gittlin at gmail.com
Sun Jul 16 06:37:05 UTC 2017


On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:40:41AM +0300, Sara Gittlin wrote:
> Thank you Ben
>
> >> I need a tool to feel up the flow tables in ofproto.
> >> do you know what tool/other should i use ?
>
> >What does it mean "to feel up" a flow table?
>
> i want to be able to read ofctl tables and to get a big output ~ 10000
> - 50000 flows.
> i need it to order to run some algo. on these flows (e.g. try to
> generate megaflows .. )
> i know that i can do it with sdn controller -  is there other tools ?

Do you just want to run "ovs-ofctl dump-flows"?

Thanks Ben
this can be an option, unless there is a better way to retrieve all
flows in ofproto
Sara


On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 6:15 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:40:41AM +0300, Sara Gittlin wrote:
>> Thank you Ben
>>
>> >> I need a tool to feel up the flow tables in ofproto.
>> >> do you know what tool/other should i use ?
>>
>> >What does it mean "to feel up" a flow table?
>>
>> i want to be able to read ofctl tables and to get a big output ~ 10000
>> - 50000 flows.
>> i need it to order to run some algo. on these flows (e.g. try to
>> generate megaflows .. )
>> i know that i can do it with sdn controller -  is there other tools ?
>
> Do you just want to run "ovs-ofctl dump-flows"?


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