Hi Ben,

Can ovs-vswitchd talk to a controller though (i'm not seeing how from the
--help)?

I believe that at one point ovs-openflowd was able to fail open when I was
using
openvswitch-1.1.0pre2 ?

Thanks,

Aaron

arosen@rackserver:~$ ovs-vswitchd --help
ovs-vswitchd: Open vSwitch daemon
usage: ovs-vswitchd [OPTIONS] DATABASE
where DATABASE is a socket on which ovsdb-server is listening.

Active DATABASE connection methods:
  tcp:IP:PORT             PORT at remote IP
  unix:FILE               Unix domain socket named FILE

Daemon options:
  --detach                run in background as daemon
  --no-chdir              do not chdir to '/'
  --pidfile[=FILE]        create pidfile (default:
/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/ovs-vswitchd.pid)
  --overwrite-pidfile     with --pidfile, start even if already running

Logging options:
  -v, --verbose=MODULE[:FACILITY[:LEVEL]]  set logging levels
  -v, --verbose           set maximum verbosity level
  --log-file[=FILE]       enable logging to specified FILE
                          (default:
/usr/local/var/log/openvswitch/ovs-vswitchd.log)

Other options:
  -h, --help              display this help message
  -V, --version           display version information
  --check-leaks=FILE      log malloc and free calls to FILE



On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 03:43:07PM -0400, Aaron Rosen wrote:
> > I would like my openflow switches to fail open but they don't seem to be.
> > When I add --fail=open I see the same behavior. I'm unable to ping into
> my
> > VM's. When I fire up a controller that works as a learning switch I can
> ping
> > my vm's again. Any idea what's going wrong?  below is some output from
> > ovs-openflowd.
>
> I don't think ovs-openflowd is going to do this properly.  Use
> ovs-vswitchd instead and it should be fine.
>



-- 
Aaron O. Rosen
Masters Student - Network Communication
306B Fluor Daniel
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