Re: [ovs-discuss] Connection ovs-vswitchd over IPv6

2013-09-09 Thread Henning Rogge
On 09/06/2013 07:34 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: You can read the section titled "In-Band Control" in the file DESIGN at the top of the source tree for information about in-band control. Thanks for the pointer. If you don't need to use in-band control for IPv6, you can just let these functions return

Re: [ovs-discuss] Connection ovs-vswitchd over IPv6

2013-09-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 10:17:34AM +0200, Henning Rogge wrote: > On 09/05/2013 06:19 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > >>I have looked a little bit more into the OpenVSwitch 1.9.0 codebase > >>for the IPv4/IPv6 thing. > >> > >>The main trouble I see is that the libs/stream*.[ch] abstraction is > >>only able t

Re: [ovs-discuss] Connection ovs-vswitchd over IPv6

2013-09-06 Thread Henning Rogge
On 09/05/2013 06:19 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: I know... its just that the device has only 4 MB of flash and 16 MB of RAM, so I am looking for ways to minimize the local footprint of openvswitch. These size requirements may be a challenge. I wish you luck. Oh, I already have the switch plus the da

Re: [ovs-discuss] Connection ovs-vswitchd over IPv6

2013-09-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 01:43:42PM +0200, Henning Rogge wrote: > On 09/04/2013 04:26 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > >It is probably a mistake to run the ovs database server (osvdb-server) > >remotely. It is not a recommended configuration. ovsdb-server and > >ovs-vswitchd should run on the same device. >

Re: [ovs-discuss] Connection ovs-vswitchd over IPv6

2013-09-05 Thread Henning Rogge
On 09/04/2013 04:26 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: It is probably a mistake to run the ovs database server (osvdb-server) remotely. It is not a recommended configuration. ovsdb-server and ovs-vswitchd should run on the same device. I know... its just that the device has only 4 MB of flash and 16 MB of

Re: [ovs-discuss] Connection ovs-vswitchd over IPv6

2013-09-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 11:36:22AM +0200, Henning Rogge wrote: > My usecase is a group of very "dumb" devices that run ovs-vswitchd > and are directly connected to a central device which will run the > ovs database, the controller (and the application setting and > removing ovs entries). It is pro

[ovs-discuss] Connection ovs-vswitchd over IPv6

2013-09-04 Thread Henning Rogge
Hi, I am experimenting with openvswitch and having trouble connecting the switch with its database and the controller. My usecase is a group of very "dumb" devices that run ovs-vswitchd and are directly connected to a central device which will run the ovs database, the controller (and the ap