To add a bridge in user space the following command is used: ovs-vsctl add-br br0 -- set bridge br0 datapath_type=netdev
If "br0" appears in the network interface list then OVS is running in userspace successfully: You can use "ifconfig" to confirm that. On 27 January 2014 09:41, sonia verma <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Arun > > Thanks > > I'm able to install ovs in userspace after following the INSTALL.USERSPACE > and I'm able to create bridge successfully by using > ovs-vsctl add-br br0 command. > > But how to confirm whether it runs in userspace or not? > > Thanks > > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Arun Sharma > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I hope you have referred >> INSTALL.userspace<http://git.openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=blob_plain;f=INSTALL.userspace;hb=a3ea1821d67e7dc8af32d7a55b5857014ec4583f> >> document >> "Using Open vSwitch without kernel support" related to this? >> >> To be specific, " >> On Linux, when a physical interface is in use by the userspace >> datapath, packets received on the interface still also pass into the >> kernel TCP/IP stack. This can cause surprising and incorrect >> behavior. You can use "iptables" to avoid this behavior, by using it >> to drop received packets. For example, to drop packets received on >> eth0: >> iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -j DROP >> iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -j DROP >> " >> >> >> From: sonia verma <[email protected]> >> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 08:59:54 +0530 >> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Subject: [ovs-discuss] OVS in userspace >> >> Hi >> >> Is it possible to run ovs on userspace without loading its kernel modules? >> >> Please help regarding this. >> >> Thanks >> _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list >> [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > -- Asadullah Hussain
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