Did you look at the ovs-vsctl man page? http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/ovsman.cgi?page=utilities%2Fovs-vsctl.8
The "set" command uses a colon to separate the column from key, but "add" doesn't. --Justin On Sep 26, 2012, at 8:17 AM, Em Iscreant <[email protected]> wrote: > Ben, > > Thank you for the response. > > I actually tried that before, but I get a "ovs-vsctl: 'add' command > requires at least 4 arguments" error. This baffles me since the "add' > and 'set' DB commands seem to take the same arguments. How should the > command look with the fourth argument? > > BTW, I've been using open-vswitch for two years now for a variety of > network security projects and I think it's a great application. > > Thanks again > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 03:57:11PM -0400, Em Iscreant wrote: >>> I am trying to add multiple mirrors on a bridge. I was able to do >>> this easily on previous version of open-vswitch, but with an recent >>> open-vswitch upgrade my reliable recipe no longer works. Now, I am >>> using the following command: >>> >>> sudo ovs-vsctl -- set Bridge ent_switch mirrors=@m -- --id=@eth0 get >>> Port eth0 -- --id=@ni get Port ni_ent_mon_if -- --id=@m create Mirror >>> name=ni-ent select-src-port=@eth0 output-port=@ni >>> >>> This works, but now the second command simply overwrites it in the database: >>> >>> sudo ovs-vsctl -- set Bridge ent_switch mirrors=@m -- --id=@eth0 get >>> Port eth0 -- --id=@ntop get Port ntop_ent_mon_if -- --id=@m create >>> Mirror name=ntop-ent select-src-port=@eth0 output-port=@ntop >>> >>> I seem to recall reading that a bridge could support up to 32 mirrors. >>> So how do amend the second command to add, rather than replace, a >>> mirror? >> >> At first glance: just change "set" to "add" in the second command. > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
