On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:38:33PM +0000, Eyal Nissim wrote:
> Please correct me if I'm wrong:
> 1. Vswitch is controlled by the remote controller, and it's the remote 
> controller that is responsible for configuring the flows for the vswitch
> 2. The database is NOT  configured by FLOWS, applications such as ovs-vsctl 
> (i.e controllers)configure port or interface related features in the database 
> (such as QoS, STP,CFM)
>     These are supposed to be read by vswitch at startup (or on the fly if 
> configuration was made on the fly)
>     Later on, when the controller sends FLOWS to vswitch the add flow command 
> also contain parameters which attach the flow to interfaces ports Queues and 
> other things
>    That's how the connection between the previous configurations and the 
> actual flows is done

Yes, that's correct.
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