OpenDaylight deletes all the rules when OVS connects. You have to find a way to 
prevent OpenDaylight from deleting rules.


> On Mar 18, 2015, at 3:41 PM, Lavanya M.K <mk.lava...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Peter for the suggestion.
> I tried the script, but what i am noticing is that the flow rules that the 
> script adds gets deleted very quickly. I tried adding idle_timeout=0 
> hard_timeout=0 to the flowrules to ensure that it never gets deleted. But its 
> not of use. How do i make a permanent flow entry in the flow table?
> 
> This is an example of flow rule additions from the leafandspine.py script:
> 
>  call(['ovs-vsctl', 'set', 'bridge', switch, 
> 'protocols=OpenFlow10,OpenFlow13'])
>         call(['ovs-ofctl', '-O', 'OpenFlow13', 'add-flow', switch, 'table=0 
> priority=100 idle_timeout=0 hard_timeout=0 actions=goto_table:1 '])  
> 
> Thanks,
> Lavanya
> 
> 
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Peter Phaal <peter.ph...@inmon.com 
> <mailto:peter.ph...@inmon.com>> wrote:
> The leafandspine.py script described in the following article provides an 
> example that you could modify for your OpenDaylight setup.
> 
> http://blog.sflow.com/2014/04/mininet-integrated-hybrid-openflow.htm 
> <http://blog.sflow.com/2014/04/mininet-integrated-hybrid-openflow.htm>
> 
> You need to find a way to prevent the controller from flushing openflow rules 
> on startup for this approach to work. There are efforts to support hybrid 
> openflow in OpenDaylight
> 
> http://blog.sflow.com/2014/09/hp-proposes-hybrid-openflow-discussion.html 
> <http://blog.sflow.com/2014/09/hp-proposes-hybrid-openflow-discussion.html>
> 
> Peter Phaal
> InMon Corp.
> 
> > On Mar 14, 2015, at 11:42 PM, Lavanya M.K <mk.lava...@gmail.com 
> > <mailto:mk.lava...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I want to have static ECMP configuration in openvswitches used in a fat 
> > tree topology DCN(simulated in Mininet). The first packet should not be 
> > sent to the controller. Can i do this by ovs commands to install flow rules 
> > into group table?
> > The controller version i am using is OpenDayLight Hydrogen, which does not 
> > support writing into group table.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lavanya
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