[ovs-discuss] Is it possible to use the ovs-ofctl command to control the remote ovs?

[Justin Pettit]

On Aug 17, 2012, at 10:29 AM, Qiaobing Xie <qiaobing.xie at gmail.com> wrote:

> But from the same remote machine, ovs-ofctl does not work:
> 
> %% ovs-ofctl show tcp:192.168.43.148
> ovs-ofctl: connecting to tcp:192.168.43.148 (Connection reset by peer)
> %% ovs-ofctl show tcp:192.168.43.148:6633
> ovs-ofctl: connecting to tcp:192.168.43.148:6633 (Connection reset by peer)

You need to tell ovs-vswitchd to listen for an OpenFlow connection on that bridge.  Take a look at the "ovs-vsctl set-controller" command to do this.

--Justin