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Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition
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Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

by Wasim Ahmed
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
494 pages
14h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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CLI for Open vSwitch

Besides the option to create and edit Open vSwitch devices through the Proxmox GUI, Open vSwitch comes loaded with command-line options to manage and gather information of a particular bridge, bond, or interface. There are four types of commands in Open vSwitch:

  • ovs-appctl: This is used to query and control the Open vSwitch daemon
  • ovs-vsctl: This is used to manage the Open vSwitch configuration database
  • ovs-ofctl: This is a tool used to monitor and manage the OpenFlow switch
  • ovs-dpctl: This is used to manage Open vSwitch data paths

It is beyond the scope of this book to go into details of all the available commands of Open vSwitch. In this section, we will only take a look at the commands that may prove to be very helpful ...

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