Re: [ovs-discuss] ovs-controller process in linux.

2013-10-11 Thread Mehul Vora
Ok... I will kill this process for further experiments. Thanks for your help Mehul.   On Friday, October 11, 2013 10:57 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: ovs-controller is an OpenFlow controller.  It is suitable only for testing because it has less functionality than is actually built into Open vSwitch.

Re: [ovs-discuss] ovs-controller process in linux.

2013-10-11 Thread Mehul Vora
Ben,  Thanks for your reply. But can you tell what is the use of ovs-controller ? And how does it interact with vswitchd/ovs-db ?   Thanks, Mehul. On Friday, October 11, 2013 10:34 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 07:35:12AM -0700, Mehul Vora wrote: > ? I am trying to understan

Re: [ovs-discuss] ovs-controller process in linux.

2013-10-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
ovs-controller is an OpenFlow controller. It is suitable only for testing because it has less functionality than is actually built into Open vSwitch. It interacts with ovs-vswitchd over OpenFlow, if you set up ovs-vswitchd to use it. On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:23:51AM -0700, Mehul Vora wrote: >

Re: [ovs-discuss] ovs-controller process in linux.

2013-10-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 07:35:12AM -0700, Mehul Vora wrote: > ? I am trying to understand different modules of openvswitch. I saw that in > linux 3 different processes namely, i)open-vswitch, 2)ovsdb-server and > 3)ovs-controller are running in the? > back ground. I understood first two processes

[ovs-discuss] ovs-controller process in linux.

2013-10-11 Thread Mehul Vora
Hello,   I am trying to understand different modules of openvswitch. I saw that in linux 3 different processes namely, i)open-vswitch, 2)ovsdb-server and 3)ovs-controller are running in the  back ground. I understood first two processes, but what is the significance of "ovs-controller" proce