[ovs-dev] ipv6 tunneling support question for branch-2.5

Jesse Gross jesse at kernel.org
Fri Apr 15 03:09:46 UTC 2016


On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Richukov Kes <kesri1234 at rediffmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Dear Jesse,
>
> Thank you for the kind response. Would you mind advising us on a couple of
> more things:
> 1. When can we expect the next ovs release? Will it be in the next couple
> of months?
> 2. Would you kindly shed some light on what the actual issues are in
> branch-2.5? Is there a set of patches that we can try out on top of branch-
> 2.5 that will enable us make some progress by the time the next official
> release comes out?
> 3. What exactly is the dependency on the kernel? Do we need the 4.4 kernel
> as a whole or just the openvswitch datapath?
>
> We would really appreciate any help from you and from the community on
> this. I can also volunteer to test any patch series that you unofficially
> give us to try out..


I'm sorry but you really need to treat this as a new feature that has been
added to master. If you want to experiment with new features then that's
what you need to be running.

I would expect the next version to be released in approximately 6 months.



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