[ovs-discuss] Register one OVS bridge to 2 unrelated controllers...

[Ben Pfaff]

Speaking only for myself, I don't know.

On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 04:31:47PM -0700, Sterdnot Shaken wrote:
> Great! In reading about this feature (thanks to your response), it looks
> like the controller needs to present a connection id to OVS, which it will
> only do if it supports the "NXT_SET_CONTROLLER_ID Nicira extension". Anyone
> by chance know if this extension is something Opendaylight supports? If
> not, no worries, I can ping their mailing list about it.
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply Ben!
> 
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 11:05:07AM -0700, Sterdnot Shaken wrote:
> > > Can you register one OVS bridge to 2 separate controllers and then, using
> > > flow's, send some traffic to one controller and send some traffic to the
> > > other one?
> > >
> > > something like:
> > >
> > > ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 priority=10,in_port=1,actions=CONTROLLER1:65535
> > > ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 priority=10,in_port=2,actions=CONTROLLER2:65535
> >
> > Yes.  Use "id=controller-id" on the controller action.  See ovs-ofctl(8)
> > for more information.
> >