Introduction to Open vSwitch (OVS)

An Introduction to Open vSwitch (OVS). Twitter: @davidmahler LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmahler Links: Intro to OpenFlow: http://youtu.be/l25Ukkmk6Sk Open vSwitch project page: http://openvswitch.org OVS Deep Dive Presentation : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-F9bDRxjAM OVS FAQs: http://openvswitch.org/faq OVS Official Documentation: http://openvswitch.org/support/ Brent Salisbury's Blog: http://networkstatic.net/ Commands used in this video: #show ovs current config summary ovs-vsctl show #add a bridge ovs-vsctl add-br mybridge #turn up mybridge interface ifconfig mybridge up #add eth0 ovs-vsctl add-port mybridge eth0 #remove eth0's IP addressing ifconfig eth0 0 #make mybridge interface get a DHCP IP dhclient mybridge #add tap interfaces ip tuntap add mode tap vport1 ip tuntap add mode tap vport 2 #add tap interfaces to mybridge ovs-vsctl add-port mybridge vport1 -- add-port mybridge vport2 #view forwarding table (mac address table) ovs-appctl fdb/show #see mapping of OpenFlow ports to system ports ovs-ofctl show mybridge #see flow entries (OpenFlow) on mybridge ovs-ofctl dump-flows mybridge #see records in ovsdb-server tables ovs-vsctl list Bridge ovs-vsctl list Port ovs-vsctl list Interface