On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 12:41:13PM +0000, Wuhongning wrote:
> if we have a hardware chip with rich networking feature, and want to
> expose as a enhanced flow switch. at the same time, we also want to
> keep the standard ovs, so what's the best practice to let them work
> together without bother each other?

Write a second ofproto provider, then configure ovs-vswitchd to use
both.

> basically, we don't want to touch the original vswitchd daemon, so we
> will add another daemon, for example, eswd, and let eswd running with
> vswitchd separately.

Why do it that way?  ovs-vswitchd is designed to handle multiple ofproto
providers at once.
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