Someone (I can't remember who) asked me about this a while ago. I hope this clarifies. --- utilities/ovs-vsctl.8.in | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/utilities/ovs-vsctl.8.in b/utilities/ovs-vsctl.8.in index 94e0c7c..c0143c7 100644 --- a/utilities/ovs-vsctl.8.in +++ b/utilities/ovs-vsctl.8.in @@ -429,7 +429,8 @@ below. .ST "CA Certificate Bootstrap" .PP Ordinarily, all of the files named in the SSL configuration must exist -when \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR starts. However, if the \fB\-\-bootstrap\fR +when \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR starts. However, if the \fIca-cert\fR file +does not exist and the \fB\-\-bootstrap\fR option is given, then \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR will attempt to obtain the CA certificate from the controller on its first SSL connection and save it to the named PEM file. If it is successful, it will -- 1.7.1 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev_openvswitch.org