On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 01:56:58PM +0200, Joel Frank wrote:
> I got some questions regarding ovs and flow entry monitoring. I found
> several patches back in Jun 2014 implementing Flow Monitors
> (http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2014-June/041673.html). However I
> can't get them to work with current Ryu 4.1 and ovs 2.4.0. However ovs
> rejects flow monitor request with the error msg
> OFPERR_OFPMOFC_BAD_FLAGS. After digging through the source code I found
> that ofputil_decode_flow_monitor_request actually tries to decode the
> message as nx_flow_monitor_request, thus the nicira extension after
> which flow monitors are apparently modeled after.

I don't think that Simon ever sent another revision of that series.
It's too bad; it would be nice to have this feature.

> However these message differ for example in the flags field, which I
> presume results in the mentioned error I'm receiving. Am I correct in
> the assumption that as of now the only way to use flow monitoring is to
> use the corresponding nicira extension?

Yes.
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