[ovs-discuss] Forcing Switch to Reconnect

[Ben Pfaff]

[merging multiposts into a crosspost]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 06:48:27PM +0200, Volkan YAZICI wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:22:06 -0800, Ben Pfaff writes:
> > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 01:53:31PM +0200, Volkan YAZICI wrote:
> >> In the controller I need to schedule restarts, which disconnects the
> >> OVS question: Is it possible to configure OVS to retry connecting every
> >> N seconds?
> >
> > 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?

1 second initially, doubling each time until the maximum, default 8
seconds is reached.  Yes, read ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5), in the
Controller table.  No.