diff options
| author | Giuseppe Lettieri <g.lettieri@iet.unipi.it> | 2012-07-25 22:51:05 +0200 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2012-07-26 16:21:48 -0700 |
| commit | f6eb6b202533ad393b8d1d8e6ae6e502cbf19caf (patch) | |
| tree | 95c1b5ef8a94591c7c3e89232d734922e766fd04 /INSTALL.userspace | |
| parent | 22dd5cecefe4452900f5e0df82bf63a849004589 (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-f6eb6b202533ad393b8d1d8e6ae6e502cbf19caf.tar.gz | |
netdev implementation for FreeBSD
This patch adds new netdev classes that implement
"system" and "tap" devices on FreeBSD using the
libpcap library. This enables the use of the
"netdev" datapath_type of Open vSwitch on FreeBSD.
Signed-off-by: Gaetano Catalli <gaetano.catalli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ed Maste <emaste@adaranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Lettieri <g.lettieri@iet.unipi.it>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL.userspace')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.userspace | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.userspace b/INSTALL.userspace index 10511b165..296f0771c 100644 --- a/INSTALL.userspace +++ b/INSTALL.userspace @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Building and Installing ----------------------- The requirements and procedure for building, installing, and -configuring Open vSwitch are the same as those given in INSTALL.Linux. +configuring Open vSwitch are the same as those given in INSTALL. You may omit configuring, building, and installing the kernel module, and the related requirements. @@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ The tun device must also exist as /dev/net/tun. If it does not exist, then create /dev/net (if necessary) with "mkdir /dev/net", then create /dev/net/tun with "mknod /dev/net/tun c 10 200". +On FreeBSD, the userspace switch additionally requires the kernel +tap(4) driver to be available, either built into the kernel or loaded +as a module. + Using the Userspace Datapath with ovs-vswitchd ---------------------------------------------- |