[ovs-discuss] Bypassing linux forwarding module?

Abhishek Verma abhishekv.verma at gmail.com
Fri Nov 28 04:28:14 UTC 2014


Yes i see them. Can i hence assume that ovs is forwarding all my packets?

Any pointers in the code so that i could start looking at how forwarding
happens?

Thanks, Abhishek

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com> wrote:

> Did you create the bridge and add the ports with "ovs-vsctl"?  Do you see
> them when you run "ovs-dpctl show"?
>
> --Justin
>
>
> > On Nov 27, 2014, at 8:11 PM, Abhishek Verma <abhishekv.verma at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just downloaded and installed ovs.
> >
> > root at abhishek:/home/abhishek/ovs/openvswitch-2.3.0# /sbin/lsmod | grep
> open
> > openvswitch            89196  0
> > gre                    14236  1 openvswitch
> > root at abhishek:/home/abhishek/ovs/openvswitch-2.3.0#
> >
> >
> > I created a bridge called "mybridge" and added eth2 (the port that
> connected by linux to the external world). I used dhcp to assign an IP
> address and am able to connect to the external world using the ovs bridge.
> >
> > My question is this:
> >
> > By doing this am i completely bypassing the linux forwarding module and
> are all my packets now being forwarded using the open vswitch stack?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Abhishek
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