HI Asadullah Thanks I need to run OVS in userspace and i have succesfully installed OVS using instructions in INSTALL.USERSPACE. However whenever i start the switch,the kernel module openvswitch appears in lsmod. Can we start the OVS in userspace without loading its kernel module?
Thanks On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Asadullah Hussain <asadxf...@gmail.com>wrote: > To add a bridge in user space the following command is used: > > ovs-vsctl add-br br0 -- set bridge br0 datapath_type=netdev > > If "br0" appears in the network interface list then OVS is running in > userspace successfully: > > You can use "ifconfig" to confirm that. > > > On 27 January 2014 09:41, sonia verma <soniaverma9...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Arun >> >> Thanks >> >> I'm able to install ovs in userspace after following the >> INSTALL.USERSPACE and I'm able to create bridge successfully by using >> ovs-vsctl add-br br0 command. >> >> But how to confirm whether it runs in userspace or not? >> >> Thanks >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Arun Sharma >> <arun.sha...@calsoftinc.com>wrote: >> >>> I hope you have referred >>> INSTALL.userspace<http://git.openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=blob_plain;f=INSTALL.userspace;hb=a3ea1821d67e7dc8af32d7a55b5857014ec4583f> >>> document >>> "Using Open vSwitch without kernel support" related to this? >>> >>> To be specific, " >>> On Linux, when a physical interface is in use by the userspace >>> datapath, packets received on the interface still also pass into the >>> kernel TCP/IP stack. This can cause surprising and incorrect >>> behavior. You can use "iptables" to avoid this behavior, by using it >>> to drop received packets. For example, to drop packets received on >>> eth0: >>> iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -j DROP >>> iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -j DROP >>> " >>> >>> >>> From: sonia verma <soniaverma9...@gmail.com> >>> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 08:59:54 +0530 >>> To: "discuss@openvswitch.org" <discuss@openvswitch.org> >>> Subject: [ovs-discuss] OVS in userspace >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> Is it possible to run ovs on userspace without loading its kernel >>> modules? >>> >>> Please help regarding this. >>> >>> Thanks >>> _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list >>> discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> discuss mailing list >> discuss@openvswitch.org >> http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> >> > > > -- > Asadullah Hussain >
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