On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Assaf Muller <as...@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Sean M. Collins <s...@coreitpro.com>
> wrote:
> > Russell Bryant wrote:
> >> because they are related to two different command line utilities
> >> (ovs-vsctl vs ovs-ofctl) that speak two different protocols (OVSDB vs
> >> OpenFlow) that talk to two different daemons on the system
> (ovsdb-server vs
> >> ovs-vswitchd) ?
> >
> > True, they influence two different daemons - but it's really two options
> > that both have two settings:
> >
> > * "talk to it via the CLI tool"
> > * "talk to it via a native interface"
> >
> > How likely is it to have one talking via native interface and the other
> > via CLI?
>
> The ovsdb native interface is a couple of cycles more mature than the
> openflow one, I see how some users would use one but not the other.


​and they use separate Python libraries, as well (ovs vs ryu).



>
> >
> > Also, if the native interface is faster, I think we should consider
> > making it the default.
>
> Definitely. I'd prefer to deprecate and delete the cli interfaces and
> keep only the native interfaces in the long run.
>

​+1.

-- 
Russell Bryant​
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