"add Bridge ent_switch mirrors @m", then (that is, change = to a
space).

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:17:42AM -0400, Em Iscreant 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.
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