It means that a packet has never matched that flow in the datapath. The packet 
that generated the flow was handled by ovs-vswitchd, so it's not accounted for 
in the datapath flow table. 

--Justin


On Aug 17, 2013, at 6:33 AM, Naveed Abbas <naveed.ab...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear All
> 
> I was wondering what is meant by used =never parameter in the output of 
> ovs-dpctl dump-flows command. As far as I know dump-flow command prints flows 
> that were recently matched in the switch flow tables, then what does never 
> mean in this context?
>  
> Syed Naveed Abbas Rizvi
> 
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