The way you configured connecting to the controller is fine if Floodlight is listening at that address. If you have specific questions on configuring Floodlight, I'd recommend posting to the Floodlight mailing list, since I'm not familiar with configuring it.
--Justin On Nov 23, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Vikram Khatri <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Justin, > > Thanks for clarification. I didn't know that ovs-controller is itself a > controller, and used that command. > > I want to use floodlight controller to connect with openvswitch. Can you > share about their config connectivity i.e. how would openvswitch connect with > controller (other than ovs-controller). > > > -- Vicky > From: Justin Pettit <[email protected]> > To: Vikram Khatri <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, 23 November 2012, 16:56 > Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Connectivity between openvswitch and floodlight > controller on two different VMs > > ovs-controller and Floodlight are two different OpenFlow controllers. I > didn't see any references to ovs-controller until the error message you > showed at the end. It appears to me it wasn't invoked properly and didn't > have "ptcp:" or something similar as an argument. However, it's not clear > from your message that you really intended to run ovs-controller. > > --Justin > > > On Nov 23, 2012, at 6:07 AM, Vikram Khatri <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to connect openvswitch 1.7 with floodlight controller. They are > > installed on separate virtual machines inside Virtual box with host-only > > adapter configuration. > > > > The openvswitch 1.7 installation is done perfectly, openvswitch and > > brcompat modules are loaded and installed correctly. > > > > In openvswitch machine, after initializing the configuration database > > (ovsdb-tool create) and starting ovsdb-server. I go on with commands: > > ovs-vsctl --no-wait init > > > > ovs-vswitchd --pidfile --detach > > > > ovs-vsctl add-br br1 > > ovs-vsctl add-port br1 eth0 > > > > ifconfig eth0 0 > > ifconfig br1 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > > > ovs-vsctl set-controller tcp:192.168.1.102:6633 > > > > In controller machine, I set up IP address 192.168.1.102, and run > > floodlight controller there. It doesn't listen to switch and start flooding > > on all ports. > > > > The switch and controller are on the same subnet, and they ping each other, > > but controller can't listen to switch. > > > > When I see results for ovs-controller start, it says: > > connect: Address family not supported by protocol and no active or passive > > switch connections > > > > Could somebody help me figure out the problem. > > > > > > Vicky > > _______________________________________________ > > discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > >
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