[ovs-discuss] we use from openvswitch bridge compatible (brcompat) or brctl? which one is recommended?

[Ben Pfaff]

On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 01:05:33AM +0430, 12navidb2 wrote:
> do u recommended we use which? normally on ubuntu 13.04 brcompat
> have conflict with brctl and I cant normally run it, i have to block
> bridge mod from rc.local after that restart openvswitch until
> brcompat service start! and since nfs service start first and need
> net! i have a lot of trouble with it!
> 
> but when using brctl , openvswitch cant work with br0 direct( it
> tell me br0 is not bridge socket) and i have to create fake bridge!
> but ofctl cant access to fake bridge and because i use opennebula
> cloud service, it runs ovs-vctl and ofctl command on real or fake
> bridge:)

I recommend that you transition to using ovs-vsctl.  Bridge
compatibility has been removed from Open vSwitch 1.10 and later, so if
you want to keep up with newer versions of Open vSwitch, you will
eventually have to stop using bridge compatibility.