The manpage for ovs-vsctl says:
set-controller bridge target...
Sets the configured controller target or targets. Each target
may use any of the following forms:
The manpage for cp says:
cp [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY
If you know how to use cp, then you should be able to see the pattern.
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 04:36:33PM -0200, Wanderson Paim wrote:
> Hi Ben and Justin,
>
> Thanks for the reply. Yes I have a set of controllers IPs, which would take
> control in case of primary controller failure. Maybe setting more than one
> would fit. How could I do it, I tried separating with comma like "ovs-vsctl
> set-controller br0 tcp:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:6633,tcp:yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy:6633". But
> just the first controller is contacted, even when I shut the first down the
> second is not contacted. I didn't found googling.
>
> Regards.,
>
> --
> Jesus, Wanderson
>
>
> We don't currently allow setting the controller based on name mostly due to
> > in-band control rules. We effectively would need to whitelist all DNS
> > traffic when a switch is connected in-band, which means controller writers
> > wouldn't be able to write DNS flows (at least to the configured DNS
> > server). Is there a set of controller IPs? If so, then you could
> > configure more than one.
> >
> > --Justin
> >
> >
> > On Dec 7, 2012, at 9:06 AM, Wanderson Paim <wanderson.p...@inf.ufrgs.br>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm trying a loadbalancer implementation with DNS and I need to set the
> > controller of the vswitch as a domain name instead of its IP address.
> > >
> > > Example:
> > > ovs-vsctl set-controller br0 tcp:controllerx:6633
> > >
> > > Such "controllerx" has the appropriate IP reference of the controller at
> > the DNS Server. I also tried setting it at /etc/hosts. I always got the
> > same error shown at "ovs-vsctl list controller":
> > > ...
> > > status : last_error="Address family not supported by protocol"
> > > ...
> > >
> > > Is there any way to use controller name instead of IP address in the
> > "ovs-vsctl set-controller" command? If not is there an alternative?
> > >
> > > Regards.,
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jesus, Wanderson
> > >
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