[ovs-discuss] How vswitchd connects to open flow controller

[frank]

  On 12/09/2010 09:45 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 9:36 PM, frank<frank at cloud.com>  wrote:
>>     I don't see parameter to specify IP/Port of openflow controller for
>> vswitchd connect in, How vswitchd find controller? auto discovery?
>>     by
>>
>>     ovs-vswitchd ofproto/list
> "ofproto/list" is an ovs-appctl command, not an ovs-vswitchd command.
> It does not have anything to do with OpenFlow controllers.
>
> To set the OpenFlow controller, use "ovs-vsctl set-controller".  See
> the ovs-vsctl and ovs-vswitchd.conf.db manpages for details.

Thanks Ben. I totally confused by the output when I run "ovs-vswitchd 
ofproto/list", actually it treats the string as address of database 
socket :(

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Frank Zhang
Cloud.com INC