# RHEL Packaging for Open vSwitch

For RHEL 7.x (or derivatives, such as CentOS 7.x) and newer, you should follow the instructions in the Fedora, RHEL 7.x Packaging for Open vSwitch. The Fedora spec files are used for RHEL 7.x and above.

If you want to install Open vSwitch on a generic Linux host or on an older RHEL, refer to Open vSwitch on Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD instead.

## Red Hat Network Scripts Integration

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 Geneve, GRE, VXLAN, etc., they will either have to manually add iptables firewall rules to allow the tunnel traffic or add it through a startup script Refer to the “enable-protocol” command in the ovs-ctl(8) manpage for more information.

In addition, simple integration with Red Hat network scripts has been implemented. Refer to README.RHEL.rst in the source tree or /usr/share/doc/openvswitch/README.RHEL.rst in the installed openvswitch package for details.

## Reporting Bugs

Report problems to bugs@openvswitch.org.