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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: RFP: openvswitch -- Open vSwitch is a multilayer virtual switch
- From: Glennie Vignarajah <glennie@glennie.fr>
- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:33:48 +0200
- Message-id: <20091015143348.22517.44072.reportbug@merlin.intranet.glennie.fr>
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : openvswitch
Version : 0.90.6
Upstream Author : http://http://openvswitch.org/
* URL : http://openvswitch.org/
* License : Apache License, Version 2.0 (mainly)
Programming Lang: (C)
Description : Open vSwitch is a multilayer virtual switch
The description is copy/paste from the web site.
Open vSwitch is a multilayer virtual switch licensed under the open
source Apache 2 license. Our goal is to build a production quality
switch for VM environments that supports standard management interfaces
(e.g. NetFlow, RSPAN, ERSPAN, IOS-like CLI), and is open to programmatic
extension and control. In addition, it is designed to support
distribution across multiple physical servers similar to VMWare?s
distributed vswitch or Cisco?s Nexus 1000v.
Open vSwitch currently supports multiple virtualization technologies
including Xen/XenServer, KVM, and VirtualBox. 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
- Standard 802.1Q VLAN model with trunking
- Per VM policing
- NIC bonding with source-MAC load balancing
- Kernel-based forwarding
- Support for OpenFlow
- Compatibility layer for the Linux bridging code
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