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| author | Christopher Walker <kris240376@gmail.com> | 2011-08-22 08:23:47 -0300 |
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| committer | Niels Horn <niels.horn@slackbuilds.org> | 2011-08-22 08:23:47 -0300 |
| commit | 444996d10d6be685428e1cc744d87c9d0868d990 (patch) | |
| tree | 7b14df9df12f80e943df939f1bdc4f21461cce34 /network/openvswitch/README | |
| parent | 27f6419c387b460c83791b38d4374a5cecce5a8d (diff) | |
network/openvswitch: Added (multilayer virtual switch)
Signed-off-by: Niels Horn <niels.horn@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/network/openvswitch/README b/network/openvswitch/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..f8f2d09e4134f --- /dev/null +++ b/network/openvswitch/README @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +Open vSwitch is a production quality, multilayer virtual switch licensed +under the open source Apache 2.0 license. It is designed to enable +massive network automation through programmatic extension, while still +supporting standard management interfaces (e.g. NetFlow, sFlow, RSPAN, +ERSPAN, CLI). In addition, it is designed to support distribution +across multiple physical servers similar to VMware.s vNetwork distributed +vswitch or Cisco.s Nexus 1000V. + +Open vSwitch can operate both as a soft switch running within the +hypervisor, and as the control stack for switching silicon. It has been +ported to multiple virtualization platforms and switching chipsets. It +is the default switch in the Xen Cloud Platform and also supports Xen, +XenServer, KVM, and VirtualBox. The bulk of the code is written in +platform-independent C and is easily ported to other environments. + +This package will build kernel modules that will be uses as replacements +for the bridge modules included with the stock Linux kernel. Open +vSwitch includes a kernel module if you wish to use the standard Linux +bridge utils to manage it. |