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docs: Make it clear that ovs-openflowd is an alternative to ovs-vswitchd.

Suggested-by: Vishal Swarankar <vishal.swarnkar@gmail.com>
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Ben Pfaff 2010-10-14 09:44:26 -07:00
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4 changed files with 10 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ Srini Seetharaman seethara@stanford.edu
Stephen Hemminger shemminger@vyatta.com
Takayuki HAMA t-hama@cb.jp.nec.com
Teemu Koponen koponen@nicira.com
Vishal Swarankar vishal.swarnkar@gmail.com
kk yap yapkke@stanford.edu
Thanks to all Open vSwitch contributors. If you are not listed above

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README
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@ -73,9 +73,9 @@ The main components of this distribution are:
Open vSwitch also provides an OpenFlow implementation and tools for
those interested in OpenFlow but not additional Open vSwitch features:
* ovs-openflowd, a program that implements a simple OpenFlow
switch (without the special features provided by ovs-vswitchd)
using the same kernel module as ovs-vswitchd.
* ovs-openflowd, an alternative to ovs-vswitchd that implements a
simple OpenFlow switch, without the special features provided by
ovs-vswitchd.
* ovs-controller, a simple OpenFlow controller.

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@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ The \fBovs\-openflowd\fR program implements an OpenFlow switch using a
flow-based datapath. \fBovs\-openflowd\fR connects to one or more
OpenFlow controllers over TCP or SSL.
.PP
For a more powerful alternative to \fBovs\-openflowd\fR, see
\fBovs\-vswitchd\fR(8). Do not run both daemons at the same time.
.PP
The mandatory \fIdatapath\fR argument argument specifies the local datapath
to relay. It takes one of the following forms:
.

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@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ 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