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Jesse Gross ccb1352e76 net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components. 
Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized
environments.  In addition to supporting a variety of features
expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained
programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network.
This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is
particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments,
which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need
to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants.

The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet
forwarding.  It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd,
which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and
translate it into packet processing rules.

See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace
utilities.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
2011-12-03 09:35:17 -08:00

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Open vSwitch

config OPENVSWITCH tristate "Open vSwitch" ---help--- Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network. This control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments, which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the need to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants.

  The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet
  forwarding.  It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd,
  which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and
  translate it into packet processing rules.

  See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace
  utilities.

  To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be
  called openvswitch.

  If unsure, say N.