Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of Documentation/fSDN/aSwitchImage


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    11= Installation and Usage of Open vSwitch =
    2 This page describes how to install and use OpenVSwitch (OVS). OVS is a software switch implementation designed to run on Linux. More information about the software can be found [http://openvswitch.org/ here].
     2This page describes how to install and use OpenVSwitch (OVS). OVS is a software switch implementation designed to run on Linux. More information about Open vSwitch can be found at their [http://openvswitch.org/ website].
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    44== Contents ==
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    88= I Installation = #install
    9 OVS can be installed either from source or from binaries. Section 1.2 covers how to build from source, and section 1.3 covers install from binaries.   
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    11 == 1.1 Prerequisites ==
    12 The node used here is a NetFPGA cube, the standard node for !SandBox9. The node was imaged with ubuntu.ndz, based on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick). The steps have been tested successfully with up to Ubuntu 12.04.
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    14 == 1.2 Method 1: from source ==
    15 The steps followed in this section are based on the contents of INSTALL.Linux, included with the OVS tarball and also found [http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=blob_plain;f=INSTALL.Linux;hb=HEAD here](also attached at the end of this page for your convenience). It should be found under the OVS root directory.     
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    17 == 1.2.1 Getting the source and dependencies ==
     9OVS can be installed either from source or from binaries. [#src Section 1.1] covers how to build from source, and [#bin section 1.2] covers install from binaries.   
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     11=== Prerequisites ===
     12OVS should install/work with relatively little effort on Ubuntu (or perhaps other Linuxes as well). The following installation/operation steps were done on Ubuntu 10.10 through 12.04.
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     14== 1.1 Method 1: from source == #src
     15The steps followed in this section are based on the contents of INSTALL.Linux, included with the OVS tarball and also found [http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=blob_plain;f=INSTALL;hb=HEAD here](also attached at the end of this page for your convenience). It should be found under the OVS root directory.     
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     17== 1.1.1 Getting the source and dependencies ==
    1818 1. If your Ubuntu install is still fresh, run 'apt-get update'. If this fails, repeat after replacing all instances of 'apt:9999' with 'us.archive.ubuntu.com' in /etc/apt/sources.list .
    1919 1. Install dependencies:
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    7474 * In general, `dmesg` can be used to check for various anomalies when things e.g. insmod fail silently. 
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    76 == 1.3 Method 2: from binaries ==
     76== 1.3 Method 2: from binaries == #bin
    7777Binaries are easier to set up, but lag in OVS version and support a narrower range of architectures and kernel versions.
    7878 1. Install the openvswitch packages. Do not use the Ubuntu repositories since the install the incorrect versions of the package; Download the