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Installing OpenStack ML2 Neutron Plugin with DevStack on Fedora

OpenStack ML2 Driver Post

OpenStack networking is tricky. This is primarily because programmable distributed systems are relatively new beyond the rigid L2/L3 control protocols we have used for the past 20 years. What I am consistently impressed with about OpenStack networking is the innovative network services that systems programmers are developing using APIs and virtual switching. Of course most vendors have a plugin for …

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Install Open vSwitch v2 from Source on Red Hat Fedora 19

Redhat Ovs Sdn

This is a walk through for installing Open vSwitch v2.0+ on RedHat Fedora 19 from source. If you want to build Open vSwitch from RPM binaries please see this post There are some new OVS tables included in the latest builds that include some neat concepts. OVS is often regarded as the SDN reference data plane implementation in the early …

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