You can use "br-get-external-id", as documented in the ovs-vsctl man page. You can also use the lower-level commands such as "get" with appropriate arguments. Does that answer your question or are you asking how to query it programmatically without using ovs-vsctl?
--Justin On Sep 16, 2012, at 3:02 AM, Saleha Asad <salehag...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am exploring the ovs vsctl command the Open VSwitch database. As far as I > have understood the external IDs in the OVS can be used for network > virtualization and the ID can be set using the br-set-external-id command. My > question is that when I set this ID then how can I access it from the > database to use in my code? > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openvswitch.org > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
