Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of Documentation/fSDN/aSwitchImage

Timestamp:

Jul 26, 2011, 8:01:48 PM (13 years ago)

Author:

akoshibe

Comment:

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Documentation/fSDN/aSwitchImage

@@ -5 +5 @@
 The node used here is a NetFPGA cube, the standard node for !SandBox9. The node was imaged with ubuntu.ndz, based on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick). A few steps are needed before we begin fetching the install file or any of its dependencies. On the node:
 
-1. In /etc/apt/sources.list, replace all instances of 'apt:9999' with 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
+1. Run 'apt-get update'. If this fails, repeat after replacing all instances of 'apt:9999' with 'us.archive.ubuntu.com' in /etc/apt/sources.list . 
 
 2. Install packages for Open Vswitch:
 {{{
-apt-get update
 apt-get install pkg-config autoconf automake linux-libc-dev libtool
 }}}
@@ -38 +37 @@
 }}}
 
+Then, instantiate the kernel module:
+{{{
+insmod datapath/linux-2.6/openvswitch_mod.ko
+}}}
+
 == 2.1. Sanity checks ==
 If things are not well, here are some things worth checking: 
@@ -58 +62 @@
 This directory should contain (mostly) unbroken links. If not, repeat step 3 of the prerequisites with another kernel version. 
 
+4. Modules may not get loaded properly; look for Open vSwitch modules with `lsmod`:
+{{{
+root@node1-1:~/openvswitch-1.1.1# lsmod | grep open
+openvswitch_mod        68183  1 
+}}}
+
+5. In general, `dmesg` can be used to check for various anomalies when things e.g. insmod fail silently.  
+
 == References ==
 The following links were referenced but aren't relevant overall; this is just for citation.