Next, the process of disabling flooding behavior, starting configuration of flow table, and manipulating packet flows will be shown. Use the ovs-ofctl del-flows br0 command to delete the default flow. Dump the flow table, and no flow entry is shown.

Figure 2 – Delete flows and dump flows

At this point, the ping should stop working because the flooding has been disabled. If interested, user can delete the bridge and re-create it with four ports. Then, the ping should work again.

Figure 3 – Pings

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