X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=5b8099890682be2a9e8f14a919b76d8be96052da;hb=7360012bdf64effd898242a58634267e203a2795;hp=7871c763c01803c903f5e7881f1ad18ed7a44e46;hpb=d17ee8689bff22541dccaa792b70a848641f3646;p=openvswitch diff --git a/README b/README index 7871c763..5b809989 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ What is Open vSwitch? Open vSwitch is a multilayer software switch licensed under the open source Apache 2 license. Our goal is to implement a production quality switch platform that supports standard management interfaces -(e.g. NetFlow, RSPAN, ERSPAN, IOS-like CLI), and opens the forwarding -functions to programmatic extension and control. +(e.g. NetFlow, sFlow(R), RSPAN, ERSPAN, IOS-like CLI), and opens the +forwarding functions to programmatic extension and control. Open vSwitch is well suited to function as a virtual switch in VM environments. In addition to exposing standard control and visibility @@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ The bulk of the code is written in platform-independent C and is easily ported to other environments. The current release of Open vSwitch supports the following features: - * Visibility into inter-VM communication via NetFlow, SPAN, and RSPAN + * Visibility into inter-VM communication via NetFlow, sFlow, SPAN, + and RSPAN * Standard 802.1Q VLAN model with trunking * Per VM policing * NIC bonding with source-MAC load balancing @@ -46,6 +47,9 @@ The main components of this distribution are: * ovs-vswitchd, a daemon that implements the switch, along with a companion Linux kernel module for flow-based switching. + * ovsdb-server, a lightweight database server that ovs-vswitchd + queries to obtain its configuration. + * ovs-brcompatd, a daemon that allows ovs-vswitchd to act as a drop-in replacement for the Linux bridge in many environments, along with a companion Linux kernel module to intercept bridge