On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 02:27:09PM -0700, Aishwarya wrote: > 1) Running 2 OVS user space daemons on the same machine, and creating a > bridge per OVS process. > > 2) Running a single OVS and creating 2 different bridges with the same OVS > process. > > Couple of questions: > 1. Is (1) even supported?
It won't work, out of the box, if you use the OVS kernel module. You might be able to get it to work with some effort, especially if you use the userspace datapath only. > 2. My use case is that I basically want to be able to test with multiple > datapaths on the same machine. With my experimentation, I feel (2) should > satisfy this. Is that true? Yes. > 3. Does a single bridge correspond to a single datapath? If not, what is > the real difference between the concept of a bridge and datapath? A bridge is an Ethernet or OpenFlow concept. A datapath is an implementation detail. Before OVS 1.10 there was a one-to-one relationship between bridges and datapaths; in OVS 1.10 and later there is only one datapath even if there are many bridges. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
