[ovs-dev] Question on open vswitch

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Wed Jul 25 17:41:40 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 08:03:04AM -0700, Chandra Sekhar wrote:
> Can open vswitch be used as a generic layer2 stack for a L2 chip/hardware.
> If so , what are some of the chips supported ( broadcom-trident / intel
> niantic..etc..) . Is this list documented anywhere ?

You can use Open vSwitch this way, but all such chips have secret,
proprietary APIs, so no one has publicly released such an
implementation.



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