i update my system by: $ apt-get upgrade then bad things happened, when i reboot the system, i had it get a timeout about network connection. i am pretty sure that, my network connection is fine (...

Each time after installing Open vSwitch successfully and rebooting, I get the following error. ovs-vsctl: unix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock: database connection failed (no such file or di...

Background We maintain a "cluster" of Ubuntu hosts which run our production applications. The hosts run a wide variety of docker containers such as consul for container monitoring and prometheus...

I am trying to use the POX controller to control the path of flows. I know that the Open vSwitch will choose the forwarding rules that have the highest priority. But what will happen if I insert a ...

I was wondering if someone could give me a brief overview of the differences/ advantages between all of the different Kubernetes network overlays. The getting started guide (http://kubernetes.io/do...

If I am setting up an switch device to be controlled via OpenFlow, what are the conditions to use ovs-dpctl versus ovs-vsctl? The man page for ovs-dpctl says to use ovs-vsctl if ovs-vswitchd is use...

I want to try OVS (software Linux switch) http://openvswitch.org/ with my LXC container with Ubuntu as host and guest. So I have installed it: # apt-get install openvswitch-switch Configured acc...