I've explained this a lot over the years.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
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@@ -772,6 +772,30 @@ A: If you add them one at a time with ovs-vsctl, it can
take a long
takes seconds, not minutes or hours, in the OVS sandbox environment.
+Q1: I created a bridge named br0. My bridge shows up in "ovs-vsctl
+ show", but "ovs-ofctl show br0" just prints "br0 is not a bridge
+ or a socket".
+Q2: I have a bridge br0. I added a new port vif1.0, and it shows
+ up in "ovs-vsctl show", but "ovs-vsctl list port" says that it has
+ OpenFlow port ("ofport") -1, and "ovs-ofctl show br0" doesn't show
+ vif1.0 at all.
+
+A: Open vSwitch wasn't able to create the bridge or the port. Check
+ the ovs-vswitchd log for details (Debian and Red Hat packaging for
+ Open vSwitch put it in /var/log/openvswitch/ovs-vswitchd.log).
+
+ In general, the Open vSwitch database reflects the desired
+ configuration state. ovs-vswitchd monitors the database and, when
+ it changes, reconfigures the system to reflect the new desired
+ state. This normally happens very quickly. Thus, a discrepancy
+ between the database and the actual state indicates that
+ ovs-vswitchd could not implement the configuration, and so one
+ should check the log to find out why. (Another possible cause is
+ that ovs-vswitchd is not running. This will make "ovs-vsctl"
+ commands hang, if they change the configuration, unless one
+ specifies "--no-wait".)
+
+
Quality of Service (QoS)
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2.1.3
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