A control table used to query the switching engine by specifying retrieval criteria for IP multicast L3 flows. Each row instance in the table represents a query with its parameters. The resulting per-flow data if requested for each instance of a query in this table is returned in the cswmFlowResultTable. A row in this table can be created by setting the corresponding instance of cswmFlowQueryStatus to 'createAndGo'. A row can be deleted by setting the corresponding instance of cswmFlowQueryStatus to 'destroy'. The maximum number of entries (rows) in this table cannot exceed the value of cswmFlowMaxQueries object.