<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">You’ll need to consult your distro’s documentation about how to load an out-of-tree kernel module. There’s usually plenty of examples available online.<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">--Justin<div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Jan 9, 2019, at 10:41 PM, Ramzah Rehman <<a href="mailto:ramzahrehman@gmail.com">ramzahrehman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>I made sure while building that I use the module that was built from OVS sources by creating a config file as shown in Building section here: <a href="http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/intro/install/general/">http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/intro/install/general/</a> </div><div><br></div><div>What else should I do to use the module from OVS sources? </div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 11:33 AM Justin Pettit <<a href="mailto:jpettit.ovn@gmail.com">jpettit.ovn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">That’s the version of ovs-vswitchd—the userspace daemon that talks with the kernel datapath.<br><br><div id="gmail-m_7256445724033690455AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">--Justin<div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Jan 9, 2019, at 10:17 PM, Ramzah Rehman <<a href="mailto:ramzahrehman@gmail.com" target="_blank">ramzahrehman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Alright. But I can find ovs-vswitchd version like this:<div><br></div><div><div> ovs-vswitchd --version</div><div>ovs-vswitchd (Open vSwitch) 2.10.90</div></div><div><br></div><div>Does this mean something?<br><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 2:33 AM Justin Pettit <<a href="mailto:jpettit@ovn.org" target="_blank">jpettit@ovn.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
> On Jan 8, 2019, at 5:48 AM, Ramzah Rehman <<a href="mailto:ramzahrehman@gmail.com" target="_blank">ramzahrehman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> ovs-vsctl list bridge br0<br>
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> _uuid : bd776aad-3a88-4d38-a7a2-6be57723f04b<br>
> auto_attach : []<br>
> controller : []<br>
> datapath_id : "0000ae6a77bd384d"<br>
> datapath_type : ""<br>
> datapath_version : "<unknown>"<br>
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I think this is indicating that you're not using the just-built OVS kernel module. The Linux built-in OVS kernel module doesn't return a version, but the one built from OVS sources would indicate the version number of OVS that you built.<br>
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