X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=vswitchd%2Fovs-vswitchd.8.in;h=516e6da774da485fb8daeeea54df46c53cefd285;hb=a877206f2f0ca10c625e311614d68a81bdc913ee;hp=48825740382952aec0835b4f40802407692126ea;hpb=672d18b29644302efa9fbc42a88cde80237d6dd8;p=openvswitch diff --git a/vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.8.in b/vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.8.in index 48825740..516e6da7 100644 --- a/vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.8.in +++ b/vswitchd/ovs-vswitchd.8.in @@ -14,17 +14,15 @@ ovs\-vswitchd \- Open vSwitch daemon . .SH SYNOPSIS -.B ovs\-vswitchd -\fIdatabase\fR +\fBovs\-vswitchd \fR[\fIdatabase\fR] . .SH DESCRIPTION A daemon that manages and controls any number of Open vSwitch switches on the local machine. .PP -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: +The \fIdatabase\fR argument specifies how \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR connects +to \fBovsdb\-server\fR. The default is \fBunix:@RUNDIR@/db.sock\fR. +The following forms are accepted: .so ovsdb/remote-active.man .so ovsdb/remote-passive.man .PP @@ -67,9 +65,6 @@ Only a single instance of \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR is intended to run at a time. A single \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR can manage any number of switch instances, up to the maximum number of supported Open vSwitch datapaths. .PP -\fBovs\-vswitchd\fR provides all the features of \fBovs-openflowd\fR, -and more. Do not run both daemons at the same time. -.PP \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR does all the necessary management of Open vSwitch datapaths itself. Thus, external tools, such \fBovs\-dpctl\fR(8), are not needed for managing datapaths in conjunction with \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR, and their use