1. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a program for configuring a managed hardware forwarding element (MHFE) to implement a logical forwarding element along with a plurality of other managed forwarding elements operating outside of the MHFE, and to communicatively couple the LFE with a private network, the program comprising sets of instructions for: providing a plurality of data tuples for defining LFE on the MHFE, without providing a data tuple for binding the LFE to a port of the MHFE; and after providing the plurality of data tuples for defining the LFE, providing the data tuple that binds the LFE to a port of the MHFE.