Networking and servers • Help, OVN/OVS on a Pi, Geneve Kernel Module Issue?

Hey All,

Starting off, I'm new to OVN (Open Virtual Network) / OVS (Open Virtual Switch), and I'm trying to understand if Geneve is something that is available on raspberry pi

I keep running into some issues following the LXD guide to set up an OVN cluster https://documentation.ubuntu.com/lxd/en ... ovn_setup/, specifically I get this error showing

when I do sudo ovs-vsctl show

Port ovn-9bc964-0
Interface ovn-9bc964-0
type: geneve
options: {csum="true", key=flow, remote_ip="192.168.200.12"}
error: "could not add network device ovn-9bc964-0 to ofproto (Address family not supported by protocol)"

Looking around, one of the things was I saw was to check if the Geneve kernel module is enabled.

"lsmod | grep geneve" shows nothing,

"modprobe geneve" gives me "modprobe: FATAL: Module geneve not found in directory /lib/modules/6.1.0-rpi8-rpi-2712"

and the boot config /boot/config-6.1.0-rpi8-rpi-v8 shows:

"# CONFIG_GENEVE is not set"


My understanding is that means GENEVE is not installed in the kernel, and I cannot enable it, is that true? I do see the file "/usr/src/linux-headers-6.1.0-rpi8-common-rpi/include/net/geneve.h", but I dont know what to do with it if anything.

Can someone provide thoughts / guidance ?

Statistics: Posted by nchorekchyan — Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:14 am

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