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List:       openvswitch-discuss
Subject:    [ovs-discuss] Flow Stats request from OVS
From:       akbar.mehdi () seecs ! nust ! edu ! pk (Syed Akbar Mehdi)
Date:       2011-03-28 12:04:23
Message-ID: AANLkTimduSG35d+DmQ0wb=82msO6qBv6-uh5wq+k47ud () mail ! gmail ! com
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Thanks for the reply Ben. I rewrote some code in my app at the controller
end and the problem was resolved. I am now getting replies to flow stats
requests (even if there are no flows in the switch).

Regards,
Akbar

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 09:04:12PM +0500, Syed Akbar Mehdi wrote:
> > Does OVS support OFPT_STATS_REQUEST ? I send a request of this type to
> OVS
> > (v1.1.0pre2) using NOX (Zaku) as a controller. I neither get an error
> > message nor any message of type OFPT_STATS_REPLY.
>
> Yes, OVS fully supports stats requests.
>
> > I should mention here that I am requesting statistics for flows matching
> a
> > certain signature. If lets say I am making a mistake in the wildcards
> > somewhere and none of the flows in the switch match my request, should'nt
> I
> > still get an OFPT_STATS_REPLY with an empty array of matching flows?
>
> Yes, you should.
>
> Perhaps you should give some more details.
>



-- 
Regards,
Syed Akbar Mehdi,
School of EECS (SEECS),
National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST),
Pakistan.
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