On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 11:12:57AM -0300, Flavio Leitner wrote: > On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 09:53:25 +0530 > Prashant Singh <prashant.ietede...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am beginner. I am trying to create virtual switch. After creating > > the virtual switch > > I think we need to set the controller and start it, but I am able to > > ping the nodes without setting the controller and starting it. Can > > any tell me what is the default behavior of the OpenV Switch. > > No, you don't need a controller. By default OVS comes with a > flow that uses NORMAL action which means subjects the packet to > the device's normal L2/L3 processing.
It's too bad we don't have good documentation on exactly how that works, though. I've been meaning for years to write up a sort of block diagram of NORMAL processing. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
