On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 04:13:40PM +0100, Arno Toell wrote: > This is a short state update. I'm currently lacking time to explain in > detail but I will, once I have some time to show some evidence of what I > mean. > > > No. From the FAQ available at http://openvswitch.org/faq/: > ... > > > - Bridge compatibility, that is, support for the ovs-brcompatd > > daemon that (if you enable it) lets "brctl" and other Linux > > bridge tools transparently work with Open vSwitch instead. > > I think you got me wrong on that. I was merely requesting to make it > possible to use the mainline ovs kernel module, but the Debian DKMS > bridge module at the same time. That caused some trouble last time I > tried. I had to use either both modules from DKMS, or no bridge > compatibility module at all.
It's absolutely true that you can't use the brcompat module from out-of-tree Open vSwitch along with the openvswitch module from upstream Linux. It won't work, sorry. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
