Re: [ovs-discuss] How to make the flow entry live in flow table permanently?

2012-08-27 Thread Kris zhang
Thanks a lot, Justin. :-) On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Justin Pettit wrote: > As documented in the ovs-ofctl man page, unless you are using an ancient > version of OVS, there is no timeout: > >idle_timeout=seconds > Causes the flow to expire after the given number

Re: [ovs-discuss] Remote managment

2012-08-27 Thread Justin Pettit
You can control the flow table through OpenFlow and general switch configuration through the OVSDB protocol. Take a look at the ovs-vsctl man page for configuring both of these. --Justin On Aug 27, 2012, at 1:43 PM, mvp...@iol.pt wrote: > Hello to all, > > Can someone tell me, if possible,

Re: [ovs-discuss] How to make the flow entry live in flow table permanently?

2012-08-27 Thread Justin Pettit
As documented in the ovs-ofctl man page, unless you are using an ancient version of OVS, there is no timeout: idle_timeout=seconds Causes the flow to expire after the given number of seconds of inactivity. A value of 0 (the default) prevents a flow from

[ovs-discuss] How to make the flow entry live in flow table permanently?

2012-08-27 Thread Kris zhang
Hi guys, I want to use ovs-ofctl command to add flow entries to implements ACL rules function, so i hope the flow entries can be stay in the flow table permanently, unless i delete it by using commands. so how to do that? if cannot, then are there any other solutions? Thanks in advanced, Kris ___

[ovs-discuss] Remote managment

2012-08-27 Thread mvpblc
Hello to all, Can someone tell me, if possible, how can we do remote managment of openvSwitch? Is there some cookbook for this? One example will be very appreciated. Best Regards, Marco ___ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openv

Re: [ovs-discuss] host networking, Open vSwitch and boot order

2012-08-27 Thread Tim Spriggs
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Gurucharan Shetty wrote: > > Does this help for your use case? > http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2012-May/016972.html > > The scripts are all there. But, someone needs to call it. > > ifup --allow=ovs $list_of_bridges Interesting. I haven't applied this to my

Re: [ovs-discuss] installing openvswitch

2012-08-27 Thread Chris Wright
* rahim entezari (rahim.entez...@gmail.com) wrote: > checking for SSL... no > configure: WARNING: Cannot find openssl: > > No package 'openssl' found > > OpenFlow connections over SSL will not be supported. Might want to also have openssl and openssl-devel installed. > (You may use --disable-ss

Re: [ovs-discuss] Installing Open vSwitch on Ubuntu 12.04

2012-08-27 Thread Markus Ose
Shame on me :-) Very simple. I enabled BRCOMPAT in /etc/default/openvswitch-switch, but forget to delete the hash sign (#) at the beginning of the line. /etc/default/openvswitch-switch # This is a POSIX shell fragment-*- sh -*- # FORCE_COREFILES: If 'yes' then core files will

Re: [ovs-discuss] data path limit

2012-08-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
Perhaps you should explain a little bit. Usually, only a few datapaths are needed. More than 255 is a surprising number. On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 02:21:57PM +0800, faicker mo wrote: > I did a test, the data path number can be greater than 255. > Yeah, we are estimating the project. With tunnel,