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author | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2015-01-30 13:38:45 -0800 |
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committer | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2015-01-30 13:38:45 -0800 |
commit | 5989a51c8815d2ca5c803ed6bbed2760946440ea (patch) | |
tree | e2caa55ec188e94c4f2a51d0d6d506930b1889e5 /utilities | |
parent | 448d667b7b9b1d7ebd9b4cb3338ffea33158c579 (diff) | |
download | openvswitch-5989a51c8815d2ca5c803ed6bbed2760946440ea.tar.gz |
ovs-dpctl: Mention use of ovs-appctl instead for netdev datapath.
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty@nicira.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'utilities')
-rw-r--r-- | utilities/ovs-dpctl.8.in | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/utilities/ovs-dpctl.8.in b/utilities/ovs-dpctl.8.in index 84407f0b9..c1be05e13 100644 --- a/utilities/ovs-dpctl.8.in +++ b/utilities/ovs-dpctl.8.in @@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ ovs\-dpctl \- administer Open vSwitch datapaths The \fBovs\-dpctl\fR program can create, modify, and delete Open vSwitch datapaths. A single machine may host any number of datapaths. .PP +This program works only with datapaths that are implemented outside of +\fBovs\-vswitchd\fR itself, such as the Linux and Windows kernel-based +datapaths. To manage datapaths that are integrated into +\fBovs\-vswitchd\fR, such as the userspace (\fBnetdev\fR) datapath, +use \fBovs\-appctl\fR(8) to invoke the \fBdpctl/*\fR commands, which +are documented in \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR(8). +.PP A newly created datapath is associated with only one network device, a virtual network device sometimes called the datapath's ``local port''. A newly created datapath is not, however, associated with any of the |