[ovs-discuss] Reg. inactivity probe interval

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:28:32PM +0530, ESWAR RAO wrote:
> I see the default inactivity probe interval is 5 sec between OVS and
> controller.
> If there's no response for 5 sec, it tries 3 times before closing
> connection from OVS side.
> 
> From the ovs-vswitchd.conf.db.5 I can see that we can set it as 0, so that
> there wouldn't be any probing.
> 
> I tried setting the probe interval -- set controller <_uuid>
> *inactivity_probe=0*
> # ovs-vsctl --db=tcp:192.168.101.54:662 list controller
> 
> I was able to set the inactivity_probe but from the logs I could see still
> OVS was querying for every 5 sec.
> 
> Can someone please let me know the correct way to set *inactivity_probe??*

That's the right way to do it.  Controllers can do this kind of
connection probing too, so are you sure that the echo requests aren't
coming from the controller?