batmancn / dpdk-ovs

Open vSwitch accelerated by Intel® DPDK - See Open vSwitch DPDK-netdev for latest implimentation

Intel® DPDK vSwitch is a deprecated fork of the open source Open vSwitch multilayer virtual switch found at openvswitch.org. If you want to use a dpdk-accelerated version of Open vSwitch, please use the DPDK flavour of OVS which can be found at openvswitch.org.

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Getting Started

To get started right away, we recommend that you check out the documentation contained in the docs directory. These files provide an in-depth overview of the components, system requirements and basic operation of Intel® DPDK vSwitch. The documents are written in Markdown format, so for best results, view the documentation using a Markdown viewer, or on GitHub.

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Requirements

Intel® DPDK vSwitch has been validated against the following Linux distributions:

• Fedora 18
• Fedora 20

Additionally, Intel® DPDK vSwitch has been validated on the following processors:

• Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 Family
• Intel® Atom® Processor C2000 Family

Finally, Intel® DPDK vSwitch requires the following version of Intel® DPDK:

• Intel® DPDK 1.7.1

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Further Information

For further information, please check out the docs directory, or use the mailing list.

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Contribute

Please submit all questions, bugs and patch requests to the official mailing list. For further information on this process, please refer to the CONTRIBUTING file.

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