[ovs-dev] [service controllers 2/3] ovs-openflowd: Fix support for multiple controllers.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Aug 6 23:48:26 UTC 2010


On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 03:24:28PM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote:
> On Aug 6, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > +When multiple controllers are configured, \fBovs\-openflowd\fR
> > +connects to all of them simultaneously.  OpenFlow 1.0 does not specify
> > +how multiple controllers coordinate in interacting with a single
> > +switch, so more than one controller should be specified only if the
> > +controllers are themselves designed to coordinate with each other.
> > +.PP
> 
> Is it worth mentioning that one option is our multiple controller vendor extension?

Might as well.  I added that here and to the identical text in
vswitch.xml.




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