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

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Tue Sep 8 20:13:54 UTC 2009


Thanks, I pushed this out.

Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com> writes:

> 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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