On Mar 28, 2014 11:27 PM, "Ben Pfaff" <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 09:24:42PM +0200, Alexandru Copot wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 7:11 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > > > > OpenFlow 1.4 Role Status Message > > > -------------------------------- > > > > > > OpenFlow 1.4 section 7.4.4 ``Controller Role Status Message'' > > > defines a new message sent by a switch to notify the controller that > > > its role (whether it is a master or a slave) has changed. OVS should > > > implement this. > > > > The spec mentions at least 2 reasons to send this: when another controller > > asks for a role change and when the configuration of the switch has changed. > > For the first one I've done an implementation on the previous hackathon. > > However, I don't see how can we change the role of a controller locally. > > The database is updated with the OpenFlow connection state. Do we also > > need to add an option to do this in reverse ? > > OVS doesn't have any configuration of the kind that the spec talks > about, so there's nothing to do.
Good to know. That was what I was wondering about. > The database only provide a status report, not a means for changing > the role. > > Are you saying that OVS already implements this? If so, then I'll > delete the item from OPENFLOW-1.1+ and from my to-do list. It seems so. I think I didn't update OPENFLOW-1.1+ because I wasn't sure the feature was complete. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
