[ovs-discuss] Getting OpenFlow Set Up

Vishal Swarankar vishal.swarnkar at gmail.com
Thu Oct 14 03:38:15 UTC 2010


Ben,

I made the same mistake first time. I checked the
http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=blob_plain;f=README;hb=HEAD

ovs-openflowd, a program that implements a simple OpenFlow switch
(without the special features provided by ovs-vswitchd) sing the same
kernel module as ovs-vswitchd.

&
http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/ovsman.cgi?page=utilities%2Fovs-openflowd.8

But probably its not clear from a first time user perspective. I got the
clarity after looking at the code.

thanks
Vishal

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:46:20AM +0900, Derek Cormier wrote:
> > Hmm it seems I was wrong. I was able to get ovs-openflowd running
> > just using a datapath with no virtual bridge involved. I thought
> > this was necessary... When is it necessary, when you are using
> > ovs-vswithd?
>
> It is never necessary to run both ovs-openflowd and ovs-vswitchd, and
> should not be done.
>
> (Where did you get the idea to run both?  This keeps coming up, with new
> users, even though we've documented in a few places that you shouldn't
> do it.)
>
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