[\fIoptions\fR] \fIdatabase\fR
.
.SH DESCRIPTION
-A daemon that provides a legacy bridge front-end for \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR. It
-does this by listening for bridge ioctl commands (e.g., those generated by
-the \fBbrctl\fR program) to add or remove datapaths and the interfaces
-that attach to them.
+A daemon that provides a legacy bridge front-end for \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR. It
+does this by listening for bridge ioctl commands (e.g., those generated by
+the \fBbrctl\fR program) to add or remove datapaths and the interfaces
+that attach to them.
.PP
The mandatory \fIdatabase\fR argument specifies the
\fBovsdb\-server\fR from which \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR's configuration is
\fB\-\-prune\-timeout=\fIsecs\fR
.
Sets the maximum time between pruning port entries to \fIsecs\fR seconds.
-Pruning ports is the process of removing port entries from \fIdatabase\fR
+Pruning ports is the process of removing port entries from \fIdatabase\fR
that no longer exist. If \fIsecs\fR is zero, then entries are never
pruned. The default prune timeout is 5 seconds.
.
"type": {"key": "string", "value": "string", "min": 0, "max": "unlimited"}},
"flood_vlans": {
"type": {"key": {"type": "integer",
- "minInteger": 0,
+ "minInteger": 0,
"maxInteger": 4095},
"min": 0, "max": 4096}}}},
"Port": {
"refTable": "Queue"},
"min": 0, "max": "unlimited"}},
"other_config": {
- "type": {"key": "string", "value": "string",
+ "type": {"key": "string", "value": "string",
"min": 0, "max": "unlimited"}},
"external_ids": {
"type": {"key": "string", "value": "string",
"Queue": {
"columns": {
"other_config": {
- "type": {"key": "string", "value": "string",
+ "type": {"key": "string", "value": "string",
"min": 0, "max": "unlimited"}},
"external_ids": {
"type": {"key": "string", "value": "string",
"minInteger": 100},
"min": 0, "max": 1}},
"controller_burst_limit": {
- "type": {"key": {"type": "integer",
+ "type": {"key": {"type": "integer",
"minInteger": 25},
"min": 0, "max": 1}},
"external_ids": {
</dl>
</p>
<p>If this value is unset, the default is implementation-specific.</p>
- <p>When more than one controller is configured,
+ <p>When more than one controller is configured,
<ref column="fail_mode"/> is considered only when none of the
configured controllers can be contacted.</p>
</column>
defined key-value pairs are:
<dl>
<dt><code>bridge-id</code></dt>
- <dd>A unique identifier of the bridge. On Citrix XenServer this
+ <dd>A unique identifier of the bridge. On Citrix XenServer this
will commonly be the same as <code>xs-network-uuids</code>.</dd>
<dt><code>xs-network-uuids</code></dt>
<dd>Semicolon-delimited set of universally unique identifier(s) for
digits to set the OpenFlow datapath ID to a specific
value. May not be all-zero.</dd>
<dt><code>disable-in-band</code></dt>
- <dd>If set to <code>true</code>, disable in-band control on
+ <dd>If set to <code>true</code>, disable in-band control on
the bridge regardless of controller and manager settings.</dd>
<dt><code>hwaddr</code></dt>
<dd>An Ethernet address in the form
<column name="qos">
Quality of Service configuration for this port.
</column>
-
+
<column name="mac">
The MAC address to use for this port for the purpose of choosing the
bridge's MAC address. This column does not necessarily reflect the
the same except one has an optional identifier and the other does
not, the more specific one is matched first. <code>in_key</code>
is considered more specific than <code>local_ip</code> if a port
- defines one and another port defines the other. The following
+ defines one and another port defines the other. The following
options may be specified in the <ref column="options"/> column:
<dl>
<dt><code>remote_ip</code></dt>
For Citrix XenServer, this is the value of the <code>MAC</code>
field in the VIF record for this interface.</dd>
<dt><code>iface-id</code></dt>
- <dd>A system-unique identifier for the interface. On XenServer,
+ <dd>A system-unique identifier for the interface. On XenServer,
this will commonly be the same as <code>xs-vif-uuid</code>.</dd>
</dl>
<p>
set.</dd>
<dt><code>ipsec_psk</code></dt>
<dd>Required key for GRE-over-IPsec interfaces. Specifies a
- pre-shared key for authentication that must be identical on
+ pre-shared key for authentication that must be identical on
both sides of the tunnel. Additionally, the
<code>ipsec_local_ip</code> key must also be set.</dd>
</dl>
<p>
Open vSwitch supports two kinds of OpenFlow controllers:
</p>
-
+
<dl>
<dt>Primary controllers</dt>
<dd>
that describes how Open vSwitch contacts this OVSDB client over the
network:
</p>
-
+
<dl>
<dt><code>in-band</code></dt>
<dd>