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List:       openvswitch-discuss
Subject:    [ovs-discuss] How to make the flow entry live in flow table permanently?
From:       zhang.kris () gmail ! com (Kris zhang)
Date:       2012-08-28 5:33:36
Message-ID: CAAskrmF6UuDnbFBL=BhLG8B7TuJLR5D798H8f+CYN0O+uOk07w () mail ! gmail ! com
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Thanks a lot, Justin.  :-)


On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com> wrote:

> As documented in the ovs-ofctl man page, unless you are using an ancient
> version of OVS, there is no timeout:
>
>        idle_timeout=seconds
>               Causes  the  flow to expire after the given number of
> seconds of
>               inactivity.  A value of 0 (the default)  prevents  a  flow
>  from
>               expiring due to inactivity.
>
>        hard_timeout=seconds
>               Causes  the  flow  to  expire after the given number of
> seconds,
>               regardless of activity.  A value of 0 (the  default)  gives
>  the
>               flow no hard expiration deadline.
>
> --Justin
>
>
> On Aug 27, 2012, at 8:25 PM, Kris zhang <zhang.kris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I want to use ovs-ofctl command to add flow entries to implements ACL
> rules function, so i hope the flow entries can be stay in the flow table
> permanently, unless i delete it by using commands.
> > so how to do that? if cannot, then are there any other solutions?
> >
> > Thanks in advanced,
> > Kris
> > _______________________________________________
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> > discuss at openvswitch.org
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>
>
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