ofproto-dpif-sflow: allow sFlow to infer the agent device.

[sliver-openvswitch.git] / vswitchd / vswitch.xml

diff --git a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
index bebebe0..84d91da 100644 (file)
--- a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
+++ b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml
@@ -778,6 +778,15 @@
         </p>
       </column>
 
+      <column name="other_config" key="bond-hash-basis"
+              type='{"type": "integer"}'>
+        An integer hashed along with flows when choosing output slaves in load
+        balanced bonds.  When changed, all flows will be assigned different
+        hash values possibly causing slave selection decisions to change.  Does
+        not affect bonding modes which do not employ load balancing such as
+        <code>active-backup</code>.
+      </column>
+
       <group title="Link Failure Detection">
         <p>
           An important part of link bonding is detecting that links are down so
@@ -881,13 +890,6 @@
           when this mode is in use.  The default if not specified is
           <code>false</code>.
         </column>
-
-        <column name="other_config" key="bond-hash-basis"
-                type='{"type": "integer"}'>
-          An integer hashed along with flows when choosing output slaves.  When
-          changed, all flows will be assigned different hash values possibly
-          causing slave selection decisions to change.
-        </column>
       </group>
 
       <group title="SLB Configuration">
@@ -2769,10 +2771,12 @@
 
     <column name="agent">
       Name of the network device whose IP address should be reported as the
-      ``agent address'' to collectors.  If not specified, the IP address
+      ``agent address'' to collectors.  If not specified, the agent device is
+      figured from the first target address and the routing table.  If the
+      routing table does not contain a route to the target, the IP address
       defaults to the <ref table="Controller" column="local_ip"/> in the
       collector's <ref table="Controller"/>.  If an agent IP address cannot be
-      determined either way, sFlow is disabled.
+      determined any of these ways, sFlow is disabled.
     </column>
 
     <column name="header">