1# 2# Open vSwitch 3# 4 5config OPENVSWITCH 6 tristate "Open vSwitch" 7 ---help--- 8 Open vSwitch is a multilayer Ethernet switch targeted at virtualized 9 environments. In addition to supporting a variety of features 10 expected in a traditional hardware switch, it enables fine-grained 11 programmatic extension and flow-based control of the network. This 12 control is useful in a wide variety of applications but is 13 particularly important in multi-server virtualization deployments, 14 which are often characterized by highly dynamic endpoints and the 15 need to maintain logical abstractions for multiple tenants. 16 17 The Open vSwitch datapath provides an in-kernel fast path for packet 18 forwarding. It is complemented by a userspace daemon, ovs-vswitchd, 19 which is able to accept configuration from a variety of sources and 20 translate it into packet processing rules. 21 22 See http://openvswitch.org for more information and userspace 23 utilities. 24 25 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be 26 called openvswitch. 27 28 If unsure, say N. 29