RHEA-2013:1477 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An enhanced Open vSwitch package that adds GRE and VXLAN support is now
available for Red Hat OpenStack.

Description

Open vSwitch provides network bridging functions and support for the
OpenFlow protocol which enables remote per-flow control of traffic.

This enhancement update provides support for GRE and VXLAN based overlay
networking.

All users who require GRE and VXLAN overlay networking are advised to
install these new packages.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenStack grizzly x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1011976 - RFE: Rebase Open vSwitch to include in-tree tunneling support

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)