[ovs-discuss] Connecting OpenVswitch and a NOX controller present on the same machine

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri May 4 16:03:32 UTC 2012


On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 07:39:41PM -0500, Anisha Kolasani wrote:
> How can the OVS be configured in --out-of-band control mode? Are there any
> documents I could refer too..?

What led you to believe that adding --out-of-band was the correct way
to configure this?

> I tried using 'ovs-openflowd' to set controller to the swithch.. but there
> was not command like that. Any pointers regarding this?

What led you to believe that "ovs-openflowd" is an appropriate program
to run?

You can configure the controller for bridge br0 with the command
"ovs-vsctl set controller br0 ...".  See ovs-vsctl(8) and
ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5) for more information.



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