[ovs-discuss] Manager Connection Setup

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 02:06:08PM +0000, 蘇于倫 wrote:
> I have some questions on the Manager connection setup.
> 
> When I dump hidden flows with ovs-appctl bridge/dump-flow bridge_name,
> if manager is set, then there will be hidden flows for manager connection.
> Is manager connection set by in-band.c as well ? or there's other code
> related to manager connection ? From some observations, it seems that
> the controller and manager connection are in different manners.
> 
> Another question is:
> Does the manager connection follow the same mechanism as the controller
> connection?

For in-band purposes, manager connections are handled the same way as
controller connections.  You can find the details in
collect_in_band_managers() in vswitchd/bridge.c.