Re: [openflow-discuss] Questions regarding flow table

2011-03-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:29:30AM -0700, Rob Sherwood wrote: > Ben: out of curiosity, what does OVS report in > ofp_table_stats->max_entires? Is there a hard limit on ovs's table in > the kernel? The newest version of OVS reports: OFPST_TABLE reply (xid=0x1): 1 tables 0: classifier: w

Re: [openflow-discuss] Questions regarding flow table

2011-03-21 Thread Rob Sherwood
Hi Georgios, You can use the ofp_table_stats message to ask any switch (NEC or otherwise) how many flow entries it can support. Ben: out of curiosity, what does OVS report in ofp_table_stats->max_entires? Is there a hard limit on ovs's table in the kernel? - Rob . On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 12:

Re: [openflow-discuss] Questions regarding flow table

2011-03-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Georgios Androulidakis wrote: > I am particularly interested in the limit that the NEC switch has. Do you > know what is the limit for a flow table that has flows without wildcards? I do not know. I hope that someone else knows. -- "I don't normally do acked-by

Re: [openflow-discuss] Questions regarding flow table

2011-03-13 Thread Georgios Androulidakis
Ben Pfaff wrote: On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Georgios Androulidakis wrote: 1) Is there a limit on the number of flows that can be held in the Flow Table? Is this related to the implementation e.g. software switch vs. hardware (NEC IP8800/S3640) ? Yes and yes. First of all, thank you f

Re: [openflow-discuss] Questions regarding flow table

2011-03-13 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Georgios Androulidakis wrote: > 1) Is there a limit on the number of flows that can be held in the Flow > Table? > Is this related to the implementation e.g. software switch vs. hardware (NEC > IP8800/S3640) ? Yes and yes. > 2) Is it possible to configure the Fl

[openflow-discuss] Questions regarding flow table

2011-03-13 Thread Georgios Androulidakis
Hi everybody, I am new to Openflow and I have a couple of questions regarding the Flow Table. 1) Is there a limit on the number of flows that can be held in the Flow Table? Is this related to the implementation e.g. software switch vs. hardware (NEC IP8800/S3640) ? 2) Is it possible to con