On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 09:08:20PM +0000, Vipin Garg wrote: > I am trying to integrate the OpenvSwitch to my PPC based platfrom. I am only > interested in OVSBD-Server portion of vswitch so that I can control the > switch via Daylight. I have started the ovsdb-server on switch but when I try > to initialize the database as suggested by documentation, I get following > errors message - > > # ./ovs-vsctl --no-wait init > ovs-vsctl: unix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock: database connection > failed (No such file or directory ) > > Just FYI, I started the ovsdb-server as (as suggeste din the INSTALL.md) - > > ovsdb-server --remote=punix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock \ > --private-key=db:Open_vSwitch,SSL,private_key \ > --certificate=db:Open_vSwitch,SSL,certificate \ > --bootstrap-ca-cert=db:Open_vSwitch,SSL,ca_cert \ > --pidfile --detach > > > > (1) Now, how & when do we create db.soc ?
ovsdb-server creates the socket. I guess the directory /usr/local/var/run doesn't exist. You should either configure to use /var/run or create it. > (2) Is it OK if I only run ovsdb-server on the switch as I am not > interested in programming the flows on switch. I only want to use > OF-CONFIG to manage the switch, You can run just ovsdb-server if you want, but then there's no switch to control. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
