Linux Kernel https://git.stealer.net/cgit.cgi/user/sven/linux.git/atom?h=v3.5-rc2 2011-12-03T17:35:17Z 2011-12-03T17:35:17Z Jesse Gross jesse@nicira.com 2011-10-26T02:26:31Z urn:sha1:ccb1352e76cff0524e7ccb2074826a092dd13016 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>