Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> --- utilities/ovs-dpctl.8.in | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/utilities/ovs-dpctl.8.in b/utilities/ovs-dpctl.8.in index 84407f0..b67c952 100644 --- a/utilities/ovs-dpctl.8.in +++ b/utilities/ovs-dpctl.8.in @@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ ovs\-dpctl \- administer Open vSwitch datapaths The \fBovs\-dpctl\fR program can create, modify, and delete Open vSwitch datapaths. A single machine may host any number of datapaths. .PP +This program works only with datapaths that are implemented outside of +\fBovs\-vswitchd\fR itself, such as the Linux and Windows kernel-based +datapaths. To manage datapaths that are integrated into +\fBovs\-vswitchd\fR, such as the userspace (\fBnetdev\fR) datapath, +use \fBovs-appctl\fR(8) to invoke the \fBdpctl/*\fR commands, which +are documented in \fBovs-vswitchd\fR(8). +.PP A newly created datapath is associated with only one network device, a virtual network device sometimes called the datapath's ``local port''. A newly created datapath is not, however, associated with any of the -- 2.1.3 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
