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| author | Leo <thinkabit.ukim@gmail.com> | 2019-09-26 15:32:33 -0300 |
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| committer | Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> | 2019-09-27 19:10:10 +0000 |
| commit | dd760a2e75142236bf9714959f2e33fb9a499b02 (patch) | |
| tree | 246b2114b4c2270e921e80a0731245538682462e /main/openvswitch/readme.debian.patch | |
| parent | 78ccc0c8c955f00de53ba262061fba2ff6da676d (diff) | |
| download | aports-dd760a2e75142236bf9714959f2e33fb9a499b02.tar.bz2 aports-dd760a2e75142236bf9714959f2e33fb9a499b02.tar.xz | |
community/openvswitch: move from main
Closes !154
Diffstat (limited to 'main/openvswitch/readme.debian.patch')
| -rw-r--r-- | main/openvswitch/readme.debian.patch | 123 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 123 deletions
diff --git a/main/openvswitch/readme.debian.patch b/main/openvswitch/readme.debian.patch deleted file mode 100644 index af89a0d355..0000000000 --- a/main/openvswitch/readme.debian.patch +++ /dev/null @@ -1,123 +0,0 @@ ---- a/debian/openvswitch-switch.README.Debian ---- b/debian/openvswitch-switch.README.Debian -@@ -1,48 +1,8 @@ --README.Debian for openvswitch-switch ----------------------------------- -- --To use the Linux kernel-based switch implementation, you will need an --Open vSwitch kernel module. There are multiple ways to obtain one. --In order of increasing manual effort, these are: -- -- * Use a Linux kernel 3.3 or later, which has an integrated Open -- vSwitch kernel module. -- -- The upstream Linux kernel module lacks a few features that -- are in the third-party module. For details, please see the -- FAQ, "What features are not available in the Open vSwitch -- kernel datapath that ships as part of the upstream Linux -- kernel?". -- -- * Install the "openvswitch-datapath-dkms" Debian package that -- you built earlier. This should automatically build and -- install the Open vSwitch kernel module for your running -- kernel. -- -- This option requires that you have a compiler and toolchain -- installed on the machine where you run Open vSwitch, which -- may be unacceptable in some production server environments. -- -- * Install the "openvswitch-datapath-source" Debian package, use -- "module-assistant" to build a Debian package of the Open -- vSwitch kernel module for your kernel, and then install that -- Debian package. -- -- You can install the kernel module Debian packages that you -- build this way on the same machine where you built it or on -- another machine or machines, which means that you don't -- necessarily have to have any build infrastructure on the -- machines where you use the kernel module. -- -- /usr/share/doc/openvswitch-datapath-source/README.Debian has -- details on the build process. -- -- * Build and install the kernel module by hand. -- -- --Debian network scripts integration ------------------------------------ --This package lets a user to optionally configure Open vSwitch bridges -+README.Alpine for Openvswitch -+----------------------------- -+network scripts integration -+----------------------------- -+This package enables a user to optionally configure Open vSwitch bridges - and ports from /etc/network/interfaces. Please refer to the interfaces(5) - manpage for more details regarding /etc/network/interfaces. - -@@ -202,43 +162,29 @@ - - ex 8: Create and destroy bridges. - --ifup --allow=ovs $list_of_bridges --ifdown --allow=ovs $list_of_bridges -+ifup $list_of_bridges -+ifdown $list_of_bridges -+ -+Notes on LXC integration: -+------------------------- -+ -+To prevent containers failing to start after hard reboots create: -+----------------------------------------------------------------- -+ -+/etc/lxc/ovsup: -+ -+#!/bin/sh -+ovs-vsctl --if-exists del-port $5 -+----------------------------------------------------------------- -+ -+/etc/lxc/ovsdown: -+ -+#!/bin/sh - --Notes on dependencies: ----------------------- -+ovs-vsctl --if-exists del-port veth.$LXC_NAME -+----------------------------------------------------------------- - --openvswitch-switch depends on $network, $named $remote_fs and $syslog to start. --This creates some startup dependency issues. -+& add to the container config file: - --* Since openvswitch utilities are placed in /usr and /usr can be mounted --through NFS, openvswitch has to start after it. But if a user uses openvswitch --for all his networking needs and hence to mount NFS, there will be a deadlock. --So, if /usr is mounted through NFS and openvswitch is used for all networking, --the administrator should figure out a way to mount NFS before starting OVS. --One way to do this is in initramfs. -- --* Since openvswitch starts after $network, $remote_fs and $syslog, any startup --script that depends on openvswitch but starts before it, needs to be changed --to depend on openvswitch-switch too. -- --* Ideally, an admin should not add openvswitch bridges in the 'auto' --section of the 'interfaces' file (i.e., if "br0" is a OVS bridge, you should --not have a line "auto br0"). This is because, when ifupdown starts --working on bridges listed in 'auto', openvswitch has not yet started. -- --But, if the admin wants to go down this route and adds openvswitch bridges --in the 'auto' section, openvswitch-switch will forcefully be started when --ifupdown kicks in. In a case like this, the admin needs to make sure that /usr --has already been mounted and that a remote $syslog (if used) is ready to --receive openvswitch logs. -- --* With systemd, adding openvswitch bridges in the 'auto' section of the --'interfaces' file can cause race conditions (i.e., if "br0" is a OVS bridge, --you should not have a line "auto br0"). Debian systems have added a --systemd ifup@.service file. This file will call ifdown and ifup on interfaces --in "auto" section automatically when the interfaces disappear and appear --respectively. This will cause race conditions if you delete and add the same --bridges using tools like "ovs-vsctl" or "ovs-dpctl". This is also a problem --when you upgrade your openvswitch kernel module using commands like --'force-reload-kmod'. -+lxc.hook.pre-start = /etc/lxc/ovsup -+lxc.hook.post-stop = /etc/lxc/ovsdown |
