On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:36:38AM -0700, danderson415 wrote: > 1. ovs-vswitchd is the ovs daemon, ovs-openflowd is a simplified ovs daemon > without special features provided by ovs-vswitchd. Do both of them have > built-in L2 switching function? The reason I asked this question is two VMs > connected to ovs can ping each other without connecting ovs to a controller.
Yes, both have L2 switching, but the switching in ovs-vswitchd is more sophisticated. > 2. After I connected ovs to nox without any module running, VMs can not ping > each other. If I run nox with pyswitch module, VMs can ping each other > again. I dump flows using ovs-ofctl, stop nox, manually add flows using > ovs-ofctl to ovs, ping does not work. Why is that? Does nox do anything > besides installing flows? Presumably the flows that you added with ovs-ofctl don't do what you want. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
