How about from neutron networking-ovn plugin connecting to both northbound and 
southbound db?

Thanks.

Hexin



On 3/6/17, 12:56 PM, "Ben Pfaff" <[email protected]> wrote:

>It already is, see ovn-controller(8).  Note that ovn-controller only
>connects to the southbound database.
>
>On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 07:16:51PM +0000, Hexin Wang wrote:
>> Fair comment. In that case, is there any plan in making "inactivity probe" 
>> interval configurable in ovn north and south dub connection?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Hexin
>> 
>> > On Mar 6, 2017, at 10:59 AM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > 
>> > If the application is extremely slow, then the connection is effectively
>> > dead, and we might as well drop it anyway.
>> > 
>> >> On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 06:53:51PM +0000, Hexin Wang wrote:
>> >> Hi Ben,
>> >> 
>> >> TCP keep alive gives a good alternative to use cases where there is no 
>> >> firewall or proxy concern. Transport level keep alive is good enough for 
>> >> ovsdb to determine if connection is alive or not, without worrying if 
>> >> application is slow (or extremely slow) in open flow echo reply. 
>> >> 
>> >> Can we working on pushing this into ovs release?
>> >> 
>> >> Thanks.
>> >> 
>> >> Hexin
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >>> On 3/2/17, 3:57 PM, "Ben Pfaff" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>> 
>> >>> We used application-level echo request and replies instead, because they
>> >>> are reliable even if a TCP connection passes through a firewall or proxy
>> >>> that does not properly pass through TCP keepalives.
>> >>> 
>> >>>> On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 11:48:04PM +0000, Hexin Wang wrote:
>> >>>> Hi Ben,
>> >>>> 
>> >>>> What is the reason that it is not getting to the main release? This 
>> >>>> seems the right keep alive mechanism for neutron to talk to ovn 
>> >>>> database, if they are not running on the same host/container and would 
>> >>>> have to use tcp as the transport.
>> >>>> 
>> >>>> Thanks.
>> >>>> 
>> >>>> Hexin
>> >>>> 
>> >>>> 
>> >>>> 
>> >>>> 
>> >>>>> On 3/2/17, 3:45 PM, "Ben Pfaff" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>>>> 
>> >>>>>> On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 11:43:01PM +0000, Hexin Wang wrote:
>> >>>>>> I have a question on the following patch that use TCP keep alive for 
>> >>>>>> ovsdb connection.
>> >>>>>> 
>> >>>>>> https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2011-April/251891.html
>> >>>>>> 
>> >>>>>> Did this patch go into ovs main release?
>> >>>>> 
>> >>>>> No.
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