On Oct 21, 2013, at 1:16 AM, Abhisekh Pandey <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, I have a couple of questions( hoping it is the right place for > these questions, if it is not can you kindly redirect me to the right > place :) ). It is. > (i) i think that the flow tables of the switches are cleared when they > go up, is that so? why is it done? This is true. The simplest answer is that this is done because NOX did it. I think the reasoning behind *that* was that it's the easiest possible way to synchronize things between the controller and the switch. > (ii) if the flow tables are really cleared when they connect, there > must be some way to turn off this behavior, how to do that? Yes, it can be disabled easily. Try doing core.openflow.clear_flows_on_connect = False somewhere early on in your component. -- Murphy
