Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OpenWRT-Devel][PATCH] add openvswitch 2.0.0 package

2013-12-22 Thread Roberto Riggio
On 12/20/2013 03:51 PM, Helmut Schaa wrote: True. However, using the current patch you can just replace a type bridge with type ovs, specifying option iface eth0 eth1 and you will get an ovs containing eth0 and eth1 as ports. I tried to give a look at the new netifd infrastructure but I could

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OpenWRT-Devel][PATCH] add openvswitch 2.0.0 package

2013-12-20 Thread Roberto Riggio
Hi, On 11/08/2013 11:42 PM, Pete Holland 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 Very interesting work. I'm

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OpenWRT-Devel][PATCH] add openvswitch 2.0.0 package

2013-12-20 Thread Helmut Schaa
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Roberto Riggio roberto.rig...@create-net.org wrote: On 11/08/2013 11:42 PM, Pete Holland 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

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OpenWRT-Devel][PATCH] add openvswitch 2.0.0 package

2013-12-20 Thread Roberto Riggio
On 12/20/2013 03:02 PM, Helmut Schaa wrote: Yep, that was me. I'm using the patch on openwrt since some time now and am quite happy. I looked at it and I;m not sure if you can define a device as bridge and add other interfaces to it. At the moment it seems to me that you define another type for

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OpenWRT-Devel][PATCH] add openvswitch 2.0.0 package

2013-12-20 Thread Helmut Schaa
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Roberto Riggio roberto.rig...@create-net.org wrote: On 12/20/2013 03:02 PM, Helmut Schaa wrote: Yep, that was me. I'm using the patch on openwrt since some time now and am quite happy. I looked at it and I;m not sure if you can define a device as bridge and

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OpenWRT-Devel][PATCH] add openvswitch 2.0.0 package

2013-11-12 Thread Helmut Schaa
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Pete Holland phollan...@gmail.com wrote: 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. Ah, ok, so no netifd and no brcompat module for you :D Thanks, Helmut

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OpenWRT-Devel][PATCH] add openvswitch 2.0.0 package

2013-11-11 Thread Helmut Schaa
Hi, On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Pete Holland phollan...@gmail.com 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,

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OpenWRT-Devel][PATCH] add openvswitch 2.0.0 package

2013-11-11 Thread Pete Holland
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

[OpenWrt-Devel] [OpenWRT-Devel][PATCH] add openvswitch 2.0.0 package

2013-11-08 Thread Pete Holland
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 Signed-off-by: Peter Holland phollan...@gmail.com --- diff --git

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OpenWRT-Devel][PATCH] add openvswitch 2.0.0 package

2013-11-08 Thread Jo-Philipp Wich
Hi. Comments inline. 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 Signed-off-by: Peter Holland phollan...@gmail.com --- diff

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OpenWRT-Devel][PATCH] add openvswitch 2.0.0 package

2013-11-08 Thread Pete Holland
when you say 'this should not be done', can you give a pointer to 'what should be done instead'? On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Pete Holland phollan...@gmail.com wrote: thanks for the suggestions... some of the questions (about sleeps, and what I presume is the postinst step) I don't

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OpenWRT-Devel][PATCH] add openvswitch 2.0.0 package

2013-11-08 Thread Pete Holland
thanks for the suggestions... some of the questions (about sleeps, and what I presume is the postinst step) I don't immediately have answers to as I sourced the original patch from another developer, and, well it works... but I will figure them out and resubmit a patch. On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OpenWRT-Devel][PATCH] add openvswitch 2.0.0 package

2013-11-08 Thread Pete Holland
nevermind... I figured it out. new patch addressing your issues is forthcoming. On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Pete Holland phollan...@gmail.com wrote: when you say 'this should not be done', can you give a pointer to 'what should be done instead'? On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Pete

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OpenWRT-Devel][PATCH] add openvswitch 2.0.0 package

2013-11-08 Thread Pete Holland
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 Signed-off-by: Peter Holland phollan...@gmail.com --- diff --git