[ovs-dev] port to Mac Snow Leopard

[Justin Pettit]

Argus support would be fantastic.  I've had some experience with using its output from some well placed taps in grad school.  I imagine that you will still need netdev support to receive the packets even in user-space on a Mac, but I may not be fully understanding what you're trying to accomplish.  Let us know if you have any questions.

Thanks!

--Justin


On Nov 24, 2010, at 3:46 PM, Carter Bullard wrote:

> Hey Justin,
> Yes,  I was just playing around with getting the distribution to configure and
> compile, so it should be just the user-space.
> 
> My primary objective is to port argus to open flow, to improve on the netflow/sflow strategies that are in place.
> Argus provides flow auditing for L2, L3 and L4+ packet flows, and is used by a number of sites and
> research groups to do operations, performance and security.  Argus has a lot of attributes that IPFIX, 
> netflow/sflow/jflow etc..  don't have, like loss, jitter, connectivity, RTT, etc... and argus has a rich bi-directional
> flow model which open flow may find useful.
> 
> http://qosient.com/argus
> 
> Carter
> 
> On Nov 24, 2010, at 6:32 PM, Justin Pettit wrote:
> 
>> That would be greatly appreciated.  My guess is that this is limited to the user-space configuration utilities, correct?  I believe a full port would require (for user-space packet processing only) implementing a BSD netdev library.  I started that for NetBSD a year or so ago, but never had a chance to complete it.  I'm happy to pass that on to anyone that would like to pick it up.
>> 
>> --Justin
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 24, 2010, at 3:11 PM, Carter Bullard wrote:
>> 
>>> Gentle people,
>>> A new member, and sorry to bother the list on this, but I'm making changes to
>>> openvswitch-1.1.0pre2 so it can compile on Mac OS X 10.6.5.  My way of getting
>>> familiar with the code.
>>> 
>>> The changes involve:
>>> ./configure.ac
>>> ./Makefile.am
>>> ./Makefile.in
>>> 
>>> ./lib/timeval.c
>>> ./lib/socket-util.h
>>> ./utilities/ovs-ofctl.c
>>> 
>>> and adding the scripts config.guess and config.sub to ./build-aux.  These scripts help by
>>> defining "$target_os", which is needed to get the AM_LDFLAGS right.
>>> 
>>> Is this of interest (?), and if so, when I'm done and its working, how should I submit the changes?
>>> 
>>> Carter
>>> 
>>> Carter Bullard
>>> CEO/President
>>> QoSient, LLC
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>>> 
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>>> 
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>> 
>> 
> 
> Carter Bullard
> CEO/President
> QoSient, LLC
> 150 E 57th Street Suite 12D
> New York, New York  10022
> 
> +1 212 588-9133 Phone
> +1 212 588-9134 Fax
> 
> 
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