[ovs-discuss] how to use ovs bridge without using OpenFlow switch?

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Thu Oct 4 16:56:34 UTC 2018


On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 02:57:50PM +0530, Vikas Kumar wrote:
> hello everyone,
> I was looking into the ovs source code, there i found
> ovs/vswitchd/bridge.c, there in the bridge structure i saw struct ofproto
> *ofproto field. this means that Openflow switch has been used. if suppose i
> don't want to use OpenFlow protocol, in that case how i can create my own
> bridge?

ofproto is the core of Open vSwitch and you can't use OVS without it.

> Note: somewhere i read that ovs can be used as a simple ethernet bridge
> also.

Sure, if you don't configure an OpenFlow controller it works fine.  But
it still goes through the OpenFlow code paths.


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