[ovs-discuss] Datapaths and bridges.

[Jesse Gross]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Igor Ryzhov <idryzhov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm trying to study Open vSwitch and now I have a question - what is the
> difference between datapaths and bridges (add-dp and add-br, add-if and
> add-port)?

Datapaths are a kernel construct, while bridges are a
userspace/OpenFlow construct.  Previously there was a one-to-one
correspondance but now multiple bridges are implemented through a
single datapath.