On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Zhe Zhang <zhangzhe.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jesse, > > Thanks for your reply. Actually I am looking at the ovs-vsctl source these > days. I have a few questions at hand: > > One is about the ovsdb related operations. I know one of the advantages of > openvswitch is that the ovs database can record the the network > configuration, making it easy for migration, however, for the purpose of our > project, we want to utilize openvswitch mainly because it supports openflow, > I just don't know whether the ovsdb related stuff is still necessary here.
If you want to use Open vSwitch as-is then it is necessary to use the database server to configure bridges first. > The other one is that I want the openvswitch bridge can start forward > packets immediately after it is created. I look at the source code, it seems > that the default forward delay is 11 seconds and the forward delay can only > be set within the range from 4-30 seconds. How can I set it to be 0 > (otherwise, DHCP cannot work for my application). Or should I just disable > stp? You should disable STP if it is not necessary in your environment. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
