On 8 July 2016 at 13:46, Arvinderpal Wander <awan...@apcera.com> wrote:
> Hi guys, > > I wanted to get started with the new CT and NAT functionality. I followed > the following discussion that was posted earlier: > > http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2016-May/070576.html > > I had a couple of questions: > 1. Is it possible to use this new functionality w/o a complete upgrade to > 4.6. That is, I don't want to do a full kernel upgrade but just update the > OVS userspace+km to the latest and any thing else that needs updating. You will have to upgrade the OVS kernel module one way or the other. i.e. either upgrade the entire kernel or install the kernel module that comes with this repo. > I > gave this a quick try with just userspace+km from the latest master, but > got errors when adding ct/nat rules (i.e. OFPBMC_BAD_MASK > and OFPBAC_BAD_TYPE). So, I suspect just userspace+km updates are not > sufficient. What else is needed? > > 2. I realize that changes will be backported to earlier kernels. How far > back will these changes go? I suspect it may be even longer before distros > incorporate these changes. > I think it has already been backported all the way to 3.10 on the OVS master branch. But when the distros will pick up, I suppose that is hard to answer (I atleast don't know the answer). I would not depend on it for anything urgent. > > BTW, I really appreciate these new features. They are awesome! > > Thank you, > -Arvinder > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openvswitch.org > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
