[ovs-discuss] OVS in userspace

[sonia verma]

Hi Arun

Thanks

I'm able to install ovs in userspace after following the INSTALL.USERSPACE
and I'm able to create bridge successfully by using
ovs-vsctl add-br br0 command.

But how to confirm whether it runs in userspace or not?

Thanks


On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Arun Sharma <arun.sharma at calsoftinc.com>wrote:

> I hope you have referred INSTALL.userspace<http://git.openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=blob_plain;f=INSTALL.userspace;hb=a3ea1821d67e7dc8af32d7a55b5857014ec4583f> document
> "Using Open vSwitch without kernel support" related to this?
>
> To be specific, "
> On Linux, when a physical interface is in use by the userspace
> datapath, packets received on the interface still also pass into the
> kernel TCP/IP stack.  This can cause surprising and incorrect
> behavior.  You can use "iptables" to avoid this behavior, by using it
> to drop received packets.  For example, to drop packets received on
> eth0:
>      iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -j DROP
>     iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -j DROP
> "
>
>
> From: sonia verma <soniaverma9727 at gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 08:59:54 +0530
> To: "discuss at openvswitch.org" <discuss at openvswitch.org>
> Subject: [ovs-discuss] OVS in userspace
>
> Hi
>
> Is it possible to run ovs on userspace without loading its kernel modules?
>
> Please help regarding this.
>
> Thanks
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