[ovs-discuss] vswitchd ptcp option

[Deepak Pillai]

Hi,

The vswitchd documentation mentions the ptcp option so that the switch can
listen on a port. But when I actually do the following:

ovs-vswitchd tcp:127.0.0.1:6633 ptcp:6634 --pidfile --detach,

I get an error saying
ovs-vswitchd: database socket is only non-option argument

Also, when  i do an ovs-vswitchd --help, none of the listening options for
vswitchd are displayed.

1. How should the ptcp option mentioned in the documentation be used? I want
to use this so that I can connect to the switch via ofctl from another
machine.

2. If vswitchd can be used with this option, how should ofctl connect to it.
While using ofctl on the same machine, I just use ovs-ofctl show <path to
br0.mgmt> (In use a teh unix socket for the same machine). From a remote
host, I do: ovs-ofctl show tcp:>ip>:<port> . Is this correct?

Thanks in advance for your help.
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