1 .TH ovs\-brcompatd 8 "March 2009" "Open vSwitch" "Open vSwitch Manual"
5 ovs\-brcompatd \- Bridge compatibility front-end for ovs\-vswitchd
12 A daemon that provides a legacy bridge front-end for \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR. It
13 does this by listening for bridge ioctl commands (e.g., those generated by
14 the \fBbrctl\fR program) to add or remove datapaths and the interfaces
18 .IP "\fB\-\-appctl=\fIprogram\fR"
19 Sets the name to the program that \fBovs\-brcompatd\fR runs to
20 communicate with \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR. The default is
21 \fBovs\-appctl\fR. Unless \fIprogram\fR contains \fB/\fR,
22 \fBovs\-brcompatd\fR will search the \fBPATH\fR environment variable
25 .IP "\fB\-\-vsctl=\fIprogram\fR"
26 Sets the name to the program that \fBovs\-brcompatd\fR runs to
27 communicate with \fBovsdb\-server\fR. The default is
28 \fBovs\-vsctl\fR. Unless \fIprogram\fR contains \fB/\fR,
29 \fBovs\-brcompatd\fR will search the \fBPATH\fR environment variable
36 .so lib/leak-checker.man
39 \fBovs\-brcompatd\fR requires the \fBbrcompat.ko\fR kernel module to be
44 .BR ovs\-vswitchd (8),
45 .BR ovsdb\-server (1),
46 \fBINSTALL.bridge\fR in the Open vSwitch distribution.