Hi Ben, my comments are inline.
On 10/14/2010 12:21 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:02:14AM +0900, Derek Cormier wrote:
I created my virtual bridge vbr0 using ovs-vsctl while ovs-vswitchd
was running. I now want to use ovs-openflowd instead.
Why?
The impression I had was that is was less complex and easier to get
OpenFlow running.
However, it seems I cannot form a connection between ovs-controller
and ovs-openflowd unless I do an ifconfig on vbr0. This, however,
requires ovs-vswitchd to be running. How can I do this using only
ovs-openflowd?
ovs-openflowd and ovs-vswitchd are mutually exclusive. You should not
run both of them at once; it will not work properly.
Yes, I remember reading that somewhere. When I was looking at the man
page for ovs-ofctl at the arguments for add-flow, I interpreted the
'switch' argument to mean one of the virtual bridges created with
ovs-vsctl, rather than a connection to the switch process. Since
ovs-vsctl requires ovs-vswitchd, I thought I might need to run it. Also
there is the fact that everything I have learned about networking I have
studied in the past two weeks, so I don't have a strong understand of
what needs to be done.
So are datapaths only used for ovs-openflowd and bridges only used for
ovs-vswitchd? And, I can use ovs-vswitchd as an OpenFlow switch?
Also, I'm not exactly sure which IP address I should use for the
datapath, and which IP address I should use for running in-band
communication.
Normally these are one and the same.
I tried using ptcp: to connect the controller and OpenFlow switch but
this didn't work.
The switch would normally specify the controller as "tcp:1.2.3.4" and
the controller listen on "ptcp:". (Well, SSL would be better.)
Ah yes, that worked.
My set-up is as follows:
- Open vSwitch runs in a Virtual Machine.
- Other vm hosts connect to the switch vm via an internal network
(one for each host).
This is an unusual setup.
Indeed. It's meant for a simulation.
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