[ovs-dev] [PATCH] vswitch: Document that fail-open is enabled by default.

Justin Pettit jpettit at nicira.com
Sat Sep 5 01:39:07 UTC 2009


Looks good.

--Justin


On Sep 4, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> The vswitchd.conf manpage said that fail-open is disabled by  
> default.  This
> is wrong: it is enabled by default.  This commit fixes the  
> documentation.
>
> CC: Sujatha Sumanth <ssumanth at nicira.com>
> ---
> vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.conf.5.in |    8 ++++----
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.conf.5.in b/vswitchd/ovs- 
> vswitchd.conf.5.in
> index 2eb49c1..f6fef9c 100644
> --- a/vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.conf.5.in
> +++ b/vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.conf.5.in
> @@ -524,7 +524,8 @@ the connection to the controller stays down long  
> enough, no packets
> can pass through the switch at all.
> .IP
> The first of these that is set takes effect.
> -If the value is \fBstandalone\fR, \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR will take over
> +If the value is \fBstandalone\fR, or if neither of these settings
> +is set, \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR will take over
> responsibility for setting up
> flows when no message has been received from the controller for three
> times the inactivity probe interval (see above).  In this mode,
> @@ -533,9 +534,8 @@ MAC-learning switch.  \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR will  
> continue to retry connecting
> to the controller in the background and, when the connection succeeds,
> it discontinues its standalone behavior.
> .IP
> -If this option is set to \fBsecure\fR, or if neither of these  
> settings
> -is set, \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR will not set up flows on its own when the
> -controller connection fails.
> +If this option is set to \fBsecure\fR, \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR will not
> +set up flows on its own when the controller connection fails.
> .IP "\fBbridge.\fIname\fB.controller.max-backoff=\fIsecs\fR"
> Sets the maximum time between attempts to connect to the controller to
> \fIsecs\fR, which must be at least 1.  The actual interval between
> -- 
> 1.6.3.3
>
>
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