[ovs-discuss] Fail Open not failing open?

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Mon Jun 6 19:53:43 UTC 2011


On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 03:43:07PM -0400, Aaron Rosen wrote:
> I would like my openflow switches to fail open but they don't seem to be.
> When I add --fail=open I see the same behavior. I'm unable to ping into my
> VM's. When I fire up a controller that works as a learning switch I can ping
> my vm's again. Any idea what's going wrong?  below is some output from
> ovs-openflowd.

I don't think ovs-openflowd is going to do this properly.  Use
ovs-vswitchd instead and it should be fine.



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