---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Saleha Asad <salehag...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] External IDs
To: Justin Pettit <jpet...@nicira.com>


If I want to query the external-id programmatically how can I do it?
It would be helpful if you guide me on that too.


On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Justin Pettit <jpet...@nicira.com> wrote:

> 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?
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