[ovs-discuss] questions about open flow setup

Waqas Daar waqasdaar at gmail.com
Mon Jul 12 17:40:01 UTC 2010


Please find the topology in enclosed attachment.

Best Regards,

Waqas Daar



On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 06:53:25PM +0200, Waqas Daar wrote:
> > I have resolved the issue. As you have already commented on my topology
> so
> > you have a better idea about my test bed. I have successfuly installed
> the
> > openswitched and controller ( NOX ) on the other virtual machine. I have
> > created a bridge and add 3 ports on the bridge 'bro' (control-eth0,
> > host1-eth1, host2-eth2). Now I want to add a host and controller in the
> > bridge so that they can communicate and controller can populate the flow
> > table. Can you please help me. I have read the
> ovs-switched,ovs-openflowed
> > but I am confused.
>
> You only need ovs-vswitchd or ovs-openflowd but not both.  The former is
> more flexible.
>
> The controller just needs an ordinary port on the bridge and an IP
> address.  Then it can talk to OVS running in Dom0.
>
> Maybe you should attach that topology diagram.
>
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