On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 10:42:09AM +0000, Mehul Vora wrote: > ??I am trying to understand different components of ovs. Please correct me if > my understanding is wrong,?? > 1. ovsdb-server : Maintains openvswtich configuration databse.?? > 2. ovs-vswitchd : Dameon that controls all Open vSwitch swithces on the local > system. When this process is started it gets its initial configuration from > OVSDB-SERVER/OVSDB.?? > 3. ovs-vsctl : Connects to ovsdb-server for any configuration changes in the > data base and ensures that ovs-vswitchd has also applied all changes. > 4. ovs-ofctl : Talks to ovs-vswitchd over OpenFlow to configure flows.
Sure, those are all roughly correct. > I want to know where are these flows (configured by ovs-ofctl) > stored other than ovs-vswitchd. Nowhere. If you have important flows, you should use an OpenFlow controller, and it should restore the flows after ovs-vswitchd restarts. > For example, if ovs-vswitchd application crashes for unknown reason, > do i lose all flow configurations? Yes. > Or is it stored in ovsdb by vswitchd? No. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
