[ovs-discuss] Does openvswitch in FreeBSD 10.1 work in Kernel space or only in userspace?

[Joe Stringer]

There is some detail in the Userspace readme:

https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/blob/master/INSTALL.userspace.md

I'm not aware of a specific guide for FreeBSD.


On 16 November 2015 at 11:13, Hassan Samii <hassan_samii21 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Ok, good to know.
> Do you know of a nice guide that expalins step by step how ovs works in
> the userspace datapath and in particular on FreeBSD?
> Thanks!
>
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> *Da*:"Joe Stringer" <joestringer at nicira.com>
> *Data*:lun, 16 nov, 2015 alle 20:05
> *Oggetto*:Re: [ovs-discuss] Does openvswitch in FreeBSD 10.1 work in
> Kernel space or only in userspace?
>
> On 16 November 2015 at 09:23, Hassan Samii <hassan_samii21 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I've installed openvswitch 2.3.2 using the ports on FreeBSD 10.1 RELEASE.
> > But, it's not working properly and i keep reading contradicting things.
> So
> > i'd like to get this cleared out:
> > In a FreeBSD 10.1 Realease operating system, does openvswitch 2.3.2 work
> in
> > kernel mode with full functionality or does it only work in userspace
> mode?
>
>
> There is no FreeBSD kernel datapath support, so you need to use the
> userspace datapath.
>
>
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