X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL.RHEL;h=cbb91deaff87376d94f297f87acb1362a3181153;hb=57e8d2bdc174cb24e2ae474ea805c7b7308d68a5;hp=874d337f6bab19347eaf81377b6da171c66e424f;hpb=8f5cb995c2d5175ab56145528a70ad0ea297e253;p=sliver-openvswitch.git diff --git a/INSTALL.RHEL b/INSTALL.RHEL index 874d337f6..cbb91deaf 100644 --- a/INSTALL.RHEL +++ b/INSTALL.RHEL @@ -68,24 +68,8 @@ RHEL. On RHEL 5, the default RPM source directory is then the kernel-devel package is missing or buggy. Go back to step 1 or 2 and fix the problem. -7a. On RHEL 5, to build the Open vSwitch kernel module, copy - rhel/kmodtool-openvswitch-el5.sh into the RPM source directory and - run: - - rpmbuild -bb --target=i686-unknown-linux \ - rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel5.spec - - You might have to specify a kernel version, e.g.: - - rpmbuild -bb -D "kversion 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5" \ - --target=i686-unknown-linux \ - rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel5.spec - - This produces a "kmod-openvswitch" RPM for each kernel variant, - which is usually: "kmod-openvswitch", "kmod-openvswitch-xen", and - "kmod-openvswitch-PAE". - -7b. On RHEL 6, to build the Open vSwitch kernel module, run: +7. On RHEL 6, to build the Open vSwitch kernel module, copy + rhel/openvswitch-kmod.files into the RPM source directory and run: rpmbuild -bb rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec @@ -100,6 +84,12 @@ RHEL. On RHEL 5, the default RPM source directory is in this example: "kmod-openvswitch", "kmod-openvswitch-debug", and "kmod-openvswitch-kdump". +A RHEL host has default firewall rules that prevent any Open vSwitch tunnel +traffic from passing through. If a user configures Open vSwitch tunnels like +GRE, VXLAN, LISP etc., they will either have to manually add iptables firewall +rules to allow the tunnel traffic or add it through a startup script (Please +refer to the "enable-protocol" command in the ovs-ctl(8) manpage). + Red Hat Network Scripts Integration -----------------------------------