Hi Justin, Could i use ovs-appctl fdb/show br0 on remote ovs? I tried ovs-appctl --db=tcp:172.16.107.21:7777 fdb/show br0, but it didn't work.
Thanks in advanced, Kris On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Kris zhang <[email protected]> wrote: > When you read the man page, you will find that the --db=ip:port is for > ovsdb-server, and if no --db arguments, it's for openflow, also the > ovs-vsctl is used for ovsdb-server, and ovs-ofctl is used for openflow. > please let me know if i am wrong. > > Thanks, > Kris > > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Qiaobing Xie <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Yes, I just figured out this by myself.. The man pages are not clear >> about this at all, e.g., an example in ovs-ofctl for remote setup will go a >> long way.. >> >> And I had to set a port other than 6633 because that port is being used >> for ovs-vswitchd to connect to the ovs db. In the man pages, the suggested >> default ports for both ovsdb connection and ptcp controller setting are >> 6633, that can't work. >> >> Thanks, >> -Qiaobing >> >> >> >> On 8/17/12 12:49 PM, Justin Pettit wrote: >> >>> On Aug 17, 2012, at 10:29 AM, Qiaobing Xie <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> But from the same remote machine, ovs-ofctl does not work: >>>> >>>> %% ovs-ofctl show tcp:192.168.43.148 >>>> ovs-ofctl: connecting to tcp:192.168.43.148 (Connection reset by peer) >>>> %% ovs-ofctl show tcp:192.168.43.148:6633 >>>> ovs-ofctl: connecting to tcp:192.168.43.148:6633 (Connection reset by >>>> peer) >>>> >>> You need to tell ovs-vswitchd to listen for an OpenFlow connection on >>> that bridge. Take a look at the "ovs-vsctl set-controller" command to do >>> this. >>> >>> --Justin >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://openvswitch.org/**mailman/listinfo/discuss<http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss> >> > >
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