1 .TH ovs\-brcompatd 8 "March 2009" "Open vSwitch" "Open vSwitch Manual"
5 ovs\-brcompatd \- Bridge compatibility front-end for ovs\-vswitchd
12 A daemon that provides a legacy bridge front-end for \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR. It
13 does this by listening for bridge ioctl commands (e.g., those generated by
14 the \fBbrctl\fR program) to add or remove datapaths and the interfaces
16 This feature is deprecated and will be removed no earlier than February 2013.
19 .IP "\fB\-\-appctl=\fIprogram\fR"
20 Sets the name to the program that \fBovs\-brcompatd\fR runs to
21 communicate with \fBovs\-vswitchd\fR. The default is
22 \fBovs\-appctl\fR. Unless \fIprogram\fR contains \fB/\fR,
23 \fBovs\-brcompatd\fR will search the \fBPATH\fR environment variable
26 .IP "\fB\-\-vsctl=\fIprogram\fR"
27 Sets the name to the program that \fBovs\-brcompatd\fR runs to
28 communicate with \fBovsdb\-server\fR. The default is
29 \fBovs\-vsctl\fR. Unless \fIprogram\fR contains \fB/\fR,
30 \fBovs\-brcompatd\fR will search the \fBPATH\fR environment variable
37 .so lib/leak-checker.man
40 \fBovs\-brcompatd\fR requires the \fBbrcompat.ko\fR kernel module to be
45 .BR ovs\-vswitchd (8),
46 .BR ovsdb\-server (1),
47 \fBINSTALL.bridge\fR in the Open vSwitch distribution.