[ovs-discuss] br-compat Module

[Cali Ente]

Thanks for quick replies. Ok here are the symptoms of my problem. If anyone
can point me in a specific direction I would appreciate it. I am porting
OVS to an embedded platform.  When running the start up script
"/etc/init.d/openvswitch start", ovs-vswitchd and ovsdb-server both boot
correctly.

The only error when running the start up scripts is
ovs-ctl: line 714: uuidgen: not found
missing uuidgen, could not generate system ID ... failed!

After this I can create bridges and ports with ovs-vsctl add-br add-port.
However my virtual switches are not showing up as network interfaces under
ifconfig.

Are the UUIDs necessary for identifying virtual bridges as net devices or
is this a deeper problem. Just hoping for some confirmation on this idea
before more cross compiling

Thanks in advance!



On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> It allowed Open vSwitch to act as a compatible drop-in replacement for
> the Linux bridge, for environments where that was desirable.
>
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:00:53AM -0700, Cali Ente wrote:
> > So what was it's purpose? I was under the impression it helped facilitate
> > the bridging.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 09:55:01AM -0700, Cali Ente wrote:
> > > > Hey everybody, just had a quick question regarding the br-compat
> module
> > > > that I couldn't seem to find answered. I know in versions =<1.9.0
> > > br-compat
> > > > is included, but 1.10.0 and on it has been removed. Does this mean
> that
> > > > br-compat is no longer needed by openvswitch to function?
> > >
> > > brcompat was never needed by openvswitch to function.
> > >
>
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