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List:       openvswitch-discuss
Subject:    [ovs-discuss] dpctl and user-defined flows
From:       abhishekv.verma () gmail ! com (Abhishek Verma)
Date:       2015-07-27 1:01:35
Message-ID: CADDmorTV9ZV1wJRj0t5FAE8ysp=mkZoqskTXPyCfimJUYx5EBw () mail ! gmail ! com
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Yes, since ones installed by dataplane only affect forwarding and are hence
mega-flows.

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 4:50 AM, Dave Waters <davewaters1970 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When i switch traffic in OVS i see that the dataplane automatically
> creates a flow that i can see with the ovs-dpctl dump-flows command. And
> then there are flows that are created by the user using ofctl add-flow
> command. One difference that i see between the two is that the flows added
> automatically by the data plane are restricted to Layer 3 information
> (source IP, dest IP and protocol type) while the user defined can go all
> the way till Layer 4 (UDP source port, UDP dest port, etc).
>
> So are the ones created by the data plane automatically the "mega flows"
> while the ones created by users the "micro flows"?
>
> Dave
>
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