diff --git a/src/main/java/net/floodlightcontroller/forwarding/Forwarding.java b/src/main/java/net/floodlightcontroller/forwarding/Forwarding.java
index ece881e70b7c9e8a13fe9846924e9abdc9be9746..b06cfebaad75a075f8be894f7b27b490acfeb7b4 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/floodlightcontroller/forwarding/Forwarding.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/floodlightcontroller/forwarding/Forwarding.java
@@ -472,8 +472,8 @@ public class Forwarding extends ForwardingBase implements IFloodlightModule {
 		}
 		tmp = configParameters.get("set-send-flow-rem-flag");
 		if (tmp != null) {
-			FLOWMOD_SET_SEND_FLOW_REM_FLAG = Boolean.parseBoolean(tmp);
-			log.info("Default flags will include SEND_FLOW_REM.");
+			FLOWMOD_DEFAULT_SET_SEND_FLOW_REM_FLAG = Boolean.parseBoolean(tmp);
+			log.info("Default flags will be set to SEND_FLOW_REM.");
 		} else {
 			log.info("Default flags will be empty.");
 		}
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/floodlightcontroller/routing/ForwardingBase.java b/src/main/java/net/floodlightcontroller/routing/ForwardingBase.java
index f30aca52985ebe6de70f98877f7993892880fc35..d0e6e0eda91ae7d418706395c9a8d17c1255b4e7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/floodlightcontroller/routing/ForwardingBase.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/floodlightcontroller/routing/ForwardingBase.java
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ public abstract class ForwardingBase implements IOFMessageListener {
 	public static int FLOWMOD_DEFAULT_HARD_TIMEOUT = 0; // infinite
 	public static int FLOWMOD_DEFAULT_PRIORITY = 1; // 0 is the default table-miss flow in OF1.3+, so we need to use 1
 	
-	public static boolean FLOWMOD_SET_SEND_FLOW_REM_FLAG = false;
+	public static boolean FLOWMOD_DEFAULT_SET_SEND_FLOW_REM_FLAG = false;
 	
 	public static boolean FLOWMOD_DEFAULT_MATCH_VLAN = true;
 	public static boolean FLOWMOD_DEFAULT_MATCH_MAC = true;
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ public abstract class ForwardingBase implements IOFMessageListener {
 			aob.setMaxLen(Integer.MAX_VALUE);
 			actions.add(aob.build());
 			
-			if(FLOWMOD_SET_SEND_FLOW_REM_FLAG) {
+			if(FLOWMOD_DEFAULT_SET_SEND_FLOW_REM_FLAG) {
 				Set<OFFlowModFlags> flags = new HashSet<>();
 				flags.add(OFFlowModFlags.SEND_FLOW_REM);
 				fmb.setFlags(flags);