[ovs-discuss] Forcing Switch to Reconnect

Volkan YAZICI volkan.yazici at gmail.com
Tue Jan 24 17:10:33 UTC 2012


On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:12:56 -0800, Justin Pettit writes:
> On Jan 24, 2012, at 8:48 AM, Volkan YAZICI wrote:
>> On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:22:06 -0800, Ben Pfaff writes:
>>> Open vSwitch automatically reconnects after its connection drops.
>> 
>> What is the default delay between retries? Is that something configurable?
>> Is there an upper limit on the # of retries?
>
> By default, the backoff starts at 1 second and doubles until it reaches 8
> seconds, where it stays until a reconnection. The maximum can be set with the
> "max_backoff" column in the Controller table. (The configurability of this and
> your datapath id question are both documented in the ovs-vswitchd.conf.db man
> page.) It will continue trying to reconnect forever.

Thanks so much!



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