X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=vswitchd%2Fovs-brcompatd.8.in;h=0cce84d7ae48777785b1827d89d970c1e914ae82;hb=f7eaaeba017b2442edd730b929d4713ba4375b1e;hp=68965ca4aa264a4964d552f1002e64256811e981;hpb=3c303e5fe1061b8715be018ae8e535cbc24303c9;p=sliver-openvswitch.git diff --git a/vswitchd/ovs-brcompatd.8.in b/vswitchd/ovs-brcompatd.8.in index 68965ca4a..0cce84d7a 100644 --- a/vswitchd/ovs-brcompatd.8.in +++ b/vswitchd/ovs-brcompatd.8.in @@ -6,21 +6,25 @@ ovs\-brcompatd \- Bridge compatibility front-end for ovs\-vswitchd . .SH SYNOPSIS .B ovs\-brcompatd -[\fIoptions\fR] \fIconfig\fR +[\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. It modifies \fIconfig\fR and forces -\fBovs\-vswitchd\fR to reload its configuration file. +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 +retrieved. It should take the form \fBunix:\fIfile\fR, to connect to +the Unix domain server socket named \fIfile\fR. .PP .SH OPTIONS -.IP "\fB--appctl-command=\fIcommand\fR" +.IP "\fB\-\-appctl\-command=\fIcommand\fR" Sets the command that \fBovs\-brcompatd\fR runs to communicate with \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR. The command is run in \fB/bin/sh\fR as a shell command, so \fIcommand\fR may contain arbitrary shell metacharacters, -etc. The \fB--help\fR option displays the default command. +etc. The \fB\-\-help\fR option displays the default command. .IP \fIcommand\fR must contain exactly one instance of \fB%s\fR, which \fBovs\-brcompatd\fR replaces by a command from the set understood by @@ -29,26 +33,19 @@ replaced by a single \fB%\fR. The \fB%\fR character may not otherwise appear in \fIcommand\fR. .IP The commands that are substituted into \fIcommand\fR are those that -can be listed by passing \fB-e help\fR to \fBovs\-appctl\fR with -\fBovs\-vswitchd\fR as target. The command that is substituted may -include white space-separated arguments, so \fIcommand\fR should include -shell quotes around \fB%s\fR. +can be listed by passing \fBhelp\fR to \fBovs\-appctl\fR with +\fBovs\-vswitchd\fR as target. .IP \fIcommand\fR must not redirect \fBovs\-appctl\fR's standard output or standard error streams, because \fBovs\-brcompatd\fR expects to read both of these streams separately. .TP -\fB--prune-timeout=\fIsecs\fR +\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 \fIconfig\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. -.TP -\fB--lock-timeout=\fImsecs\fR -. -Sets the maximum time to wait for \fIconfig\fR to become unlocked to -\fImsecs\fR milliseconds. The default lock timeout is 500 milliseconds. . .so lib/daemon.man .so lib/vlog.man @@ -61,5 +58,5 @@ loaded. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR ovs\-appctl (8), .BR ovs\-vswitchd (8), -.BR ovs\-vswitchd.conf (5), -\fBINSTALL\fR in the Open vSwitch distribution. +.BR ovsdb\-server (1), +\fBINSTALL.bridge\fR in the Open vSwitch distribution.