[ovs-discuss] Cannot Add Meter in OVS 2.10.2

[Justin Pettit]

You’ll need to consult your distro’s documentation about how to load an out-of-tree kernel module.  There’s usually plenty of examples available online.

--Justin


> On Jan 9, 2019, at 10:41 PM, Ramzah Rehman <ramzahrehman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I made sure while building that I use the module that was built from OVS sources by creating a config file as shown in Building section here: http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/intro/install/general/ 
> 
> What else should I do to use the module from OVS sources? 
> 
> 
>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 11:33 AM Justin Pettit <jpettit.ovn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That’s the version of ovs-vswitchd—the userspace daemon that talks with the kernel datapath.
>> 
>> --Justin
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jan 9, 2019, at 10:17 PM, Ramzah Rehman <ramzahrehman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Alright. But I can find ovs-vswitchd version like this:
>>> 
>>>  ovs-vswitchd --version
>>> ovs-vswitchd (Open vSwitch) 2.10.90
>>> 
>>> Does this mean something?
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 2:33 AM Justin Pettit <jpettit at ovn.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> > On Jan 8, 2019, at 5:48 AM, Ramzah Rehman <ramzahrehman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > 
>>>> > ovs-vsctl list bridge br0
>>>> > 
>>>> > _uuid               : bd776aad-3a88-4d38-a7a2-6be57723f04b
>>>> > auto_attach         : []
>>>> > controller          : []
>>>> > datapath_id         : "0000ae6a77bd384d"
>>>> > datapath_type       : ""
>>>> > datapath_version    : "<unknown>"
>>>> 
>>>> I think this is indicating that you're not using the just-built OVS kernel module.  The Linux built-in OVS kernel module doesn't return a version, but the one built from OVS sources would indicate the version number of OVS that you built.
>>>> 
>>>> --Justin
>>>> 
>>>> 
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