[ovs-dev] python/ovs: Add passive TCP connection to IDL

Russell Bryant russell at ovn.org
Tue Dec 1 16:23:39 UTC 2015


On 12/01/2015 11:03 AM, Ofer Ben-Yacov wrote:
> Currently the IDL does not support passive TCP connection (where the OVSDB
> connects to its manager). This patch allow IDL to use already open session,
> that has used previously to retrieve the database schema, with the ability
> to go back to listen mode in case the connection will be lost.
> 
> To be able to test passive TCP to the OVSDB, an helper application was
> used. This application opened a TCP connection to both, the agent
> application that used IDL and the OVSDB server, and send any data it got
> from one connection to the other. To simulate a connection problem this
> application was stopped and then re-started.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ofer Ben-Yacov <ofer.benyacov at gmail.com>
> 
> Tested-by: Ofer Ben-Yacov <ofer.benyacov at gmail.com>
> 
> Requested-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>, "D M, Vikas"
> <vikas.d-m at hpe.com>, "Kamat, Maruti Haridas" <maruti.kamat at hpe.com>,
> Sukhdev Kapur <sukhdev at arista.com<mailto:sukhdev at arista.com>>,"Migliaccio,
> Armando" <armando.migliaccio at hpe.com>

It looks like you intended to post a patch here, but the patch content
is missing.

-- 
Russell Bryant



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