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| author | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2010-06-18 15:58:13 -0700 |
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| committer | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2010-06-23 09:54:14 -0700 |
| commit | cb8141b2334a54d45bddefda3bf537f2907eec7b (patch) | |
| tree | b318830d91fdfdb75ba12824ebc4fc859d7153cb | |
| parent | 254604d84b48fde8e19299a10be7145adee52f98 (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-cb8141b2334a54d45bddefda3bf537f2907eec7b.tar.gz | |
Better document how ovsdb-server is meant to be used.
DarkBls <darkbls@yahoo.com> had the idea that a single ovsdb-server could
be used to serve configuration details across the network to multiple
remote ovs-vswitchd instances. This doesn't work, but the documentation
didn't spell it out. This commit should help.
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.Linux | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.8.in | 7 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.Linux b/INSTALL.Linux index bd7038c85..b4f9b7678 100644 --- a/INSTALL.Linux +++ b/INSTALL.Linux @@ -229,9 +229,10 @@ Startup ======= Before starting ovs-vswitchd itself, you need to start its -configuration database, ovsdb-server. Configure it to use the -database you created during step 7 of installation, above, and to -listen on a Unix domain socket, e.g.: +configuration database, ovsdb-server. Each machine on which Open +vSwitch is installed should run its own copy of ovsdb-server. +Configure it to use the database you created during step 7 of +installation, above, and to listen on a Unix domain socket, e.g.: % ovsdb-server /usr/local/etc/ovs-vswitchd.conf.db --remote=punix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock diff --git a/vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.8.in b/vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.8.in index 0a7369e90..0e5d3188e 100644 --- a/vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.8.in +++ b/vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.8.in @@ -18,9 +18,10 @@ ovs\-vswitchd \- Open vSwitch daemon A daemon that manages and controls any number of Open vSwitch switches on the local machine. .PP -The mandatory \fIdatabase\fR argument specifies the -\fBovsdb\-server\fR from which \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR's configuration -should be retrieved. It takes one of the following forms: +The mandatory \fIdatabase\fR argument normally takes the form +\fBunix:\fIfile\fR, where \fIfile\fR is the name of a Unix domain +socket on which \fBovsdb-server\fR is listening. However, all of the +following forms are accepted: .so ovsdb/remote-active.man .so ovsdb/remote-passive.man .PP |