Deployment Guide
Flow Type Maximum Number of Available Flows
ACL 256 or 512 (depending on ACL CAM carving)
L2 48,000
L3 6,000
• To avoid session timeout issues if you change the time or date on the system clock, you must disable and re-
enable all existing OpenFlow instances.
Related Commands
• shutdown — Enables or disables the OpenFlow instance.
• show openflow — Displays general information about OpenFlow instances.
• controller — Specifies the OpenFlow controller configuration that the OpenFlow instance uses to establish a
connection.
of-instance (Interface)
Add a physical interface or LAG to an OpenFlow instance. After you assign an interface to an OF instance, you cannot apply L2 or L3
protocols to that instance.
Syntax
of-instance of-id
Parameter
of-id Enter the OpenFlow instance ID. The range is from 1 to 8.
Command Modes INTERFACE MODE
Command History
The following is a list of the Dell Networking OS version history for this command.
Version Description
9.10(0.1) Introduced on the S4048T-ON and S6010-ON.
9.9(0.0) Introduced on the C9010.
9.8(1.0) Introduced on the Z9100–ON.
9.8(0.0P5) Introduced on the S4048-ON.
9.8(0.0P2) Introduced on the S3048-ON
9.9(0.0) Introduced on the C9010.
9.8(0.0) Introduced on the S3048-ON and S4048-ON.
9.7(0.0) Introduced on the S5000, S6000-ON, and Z9500.
9.3(0.0) Introduced on the S6000.
9.2(0.0) Introduced on the S4820T and MXL.
9.1(0.0) Introduced on the S4810.
Example In the following example, the ports Te 1/7 and Te 1/31 are associated with of-instance 1:In the following example,
the ports Te 1/7 and Te 1/31 are associated with of-instance 1: In the following example, the ports Gi 1/7 and Gi
1/31 are associated with of-instance 1: In the following example, the ports Te 1/7/1 and Te 1/31/1 are associated
with of-instance 1:
Dell(conf)#interface gigabitethernet 1/7
Dell(conf-if-gi-1/7)#of-instance 1
Dell(conf-if-gi-1/7)#interface gigabitethernet 1/31
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