[ovs-discuss] flow table in standalone mode

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 05:05:15PM +0800, sun joe wrote:
>     I'm trying to  pack OVS into a fibre modem to build a vCPE controlled
> by ODL。Reading  those documents describing interaction between OVS and ODL，
> it seems flow tables should be controlled by ODL and initialized by ODL.
> 
>     But,  as u all know  we could not guarantee controller is available all
> the time, and vCPE should consider such situation and  should be able to
> provide service without controller . To deal with this situation OVS
> fail-mode  should be set to  standalone to make vCPE work.
> 
>     Testing with  mininet , it is  found   ovs continue working  in
> standalone mode , but I could not set up   a  basic flow-table other than
> OVS works just like a L2 switch.
> 
>       What  I   want to know is , could it be possible to setup a basic
> flow table in vCPE situation?   that is , when controller is out of
> connection  vCPE could work  with basic flow tables with more than one
> table?

This could be done by running a controller locally on the vCPE.  OVS
doesn't currently support such a configuration without a local
controller.