| 67 | | The final step of the build involves initializing a config database: |
| 68 | | {{{ |
| 69 | | http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=blob_plain;f=INSTALL.Linux;hb=HEAD |
| 70 | | }}} |
| 71 | | |
| 72 | | Once Built we need to start the database server and the switch damemon before we can do any thing with it: |
| 73 | | 1. Start the server with this command: |
| 74 | | {{{ |
| 75 | | ovsdb-server /usr/local/etc/ovs-vswitchd.conf.db --remote=punix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock --remote=db:Open_vSwitch,managers --private-key=db:SSL,private_key --certificate=db:SSL,certificate --bootstrap-ca-cert=db:SSL,ca_cert & |
| 76 | | }}} |
| 77 | | 1. initialize the database using ovs-vsctl (only needs to be done once) |
| 78 | | {{{ |
| 79 | | ovs-vsctl --no-wait init |
| 80 | | }}} |
| 81 | | 1. Once the database server is started, we next can start the switch server: |
| 82 | | {{{ |
| 83 | | ovs-vswitchd unix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock & |
| 84 | | }}} |
| 85 | | ---- |
| | 67 | === Creating a Virtual Open Flow Switch === |