[ovs-discuss] How to connect OVS to flowvisor?

Reid Price reid at nicira.com
Wed Jan 19 08:48:16 UTC 2011


Quick add-on to Justin's answer, in case it wasn't implied:

  ovs-vsctl *set-controller* <bridge> [ssl|tcp]:<flowvisor_ip>

  -Reid

2011/1/18 Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com>

> If you have all the pieces installed, you can just configure it as you
> would any OpenFlow controller in OVS:
>
>        ovs-vsctl <bridge> ssl:<flowvisor_ip>
>
> or, if it's unencrypted:
>
>        ovs-vsctl <bridge> tcp:<flowvisor_ip>
>
> The section "OpenFlow Controller Connectivity" in the ovs-vsctl man page
> should have all the information you need.
>
> --Justin
>
>
> On Jan 18, 2011, at 11:53 PM, Yue ZHANG wrote:
>
> > Dear staff,
> >
> >
> > I plan to use flowvisor to manage more than one controller(NOX), working
> together with some OVS instances. But I have difficulty in the
> configuration, because there is few docs about it.
> >
> > So I just need your help to tell me how to connect a OVS to the
> flowvisor?
> >
> > By my understanding, if the FV is listening port 6633, then the OVS
> should connect to this port, someone use 'secchan' to do this, but I could
> not find this command in my openvswitch-1.1.0pre2 deployment.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > Yue ZHANG
> > cassidy.zy at gmail.com
> > 2011-01-19
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