[ovs-discuss] Installing OVS with Openflow

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 03:54:13PM +0200, Etienne Mula wrote:
> I'm a final student attenting to University of Malta and i'm currently
> trying to working on Openflow and Floodlight controller. I would like to
> ask if its possible that OVS is installed on a server/pc having 4 nic cards
> without kvm please

Yes.

> , unfortunately i can't find any how-to documents. 

Open vSwitch comes with installation instructions in a file named
INSTALL.

> ( Installing openflow directly on the pc/server is giving problems
> because when there is an interface status change the switch is not
> sending any port updates apart from down making it unsable)

By "openflow" here, do you mean the OpenFlow reference implementation or
some version of Open vSwitch?

> Apart from this i read that its also possible to build OVS on Openwrt are
> there any sources/links which would help me accomplish this.

A web search for "install open vswitch on openwrt" turns up many
possibilities.