We are actually using it in a somewhat unconventional way (at least in
OpenWRT).  I work at Skytap and we use OpenWRT (and have been for almost
four years) as a micro virtual machine for gateway services to our
customer's VMs.  One of our features requires us to support a large number
of dynamically allocated port forwarders.  We are using OpenvSwitch as a
policy routing engine in our distribution plane to distribute the traffic
to the gateway instances that do the actual NAT (we used to use netfilter +
ip rule + virtual route tables, but that has significant performance issues
in the control plane at scale).  The distribution router is a one-armed
router and runs a proprietary policy routing protocol.  The protocol daemon
manages interface up/down events as well as adding/removing necessary flows
for the policy routing, so we aren't using netifd.


On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Helmut Schaa
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Pete Holland <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > This is a patch for the most recent stable build of OpenvSwitch (2.0.0).
>  It
> > supports kernels 2.6.32 - 3.10.x
> >
> > It was taken and updated from Julius Shulz-Zander's work:
> > https://github.com/schuza/openvswitch
>
> Nice, I've been playing around with openvswitch as well.
> However, I'm still at 1.9.x due to the brcompat module :/
>
> What scripts are you using for setting ovs up? Not netifd I guess?
>
> Helmut
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