Questions tagged [openflow]
Openflow is a switch specification that enables the switch to communicate with the remote controller through an openflow protocol and allow it to change its configuration.
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Add flow rules on ODL calcium release
I'm very new to sdn and virtualization world
I'm following this openflowplugin documentation (well there's no explanation for openflowplugin in under calcium release, that's why I'm reading potasium'...
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OpenDayLight SDN: Can't get openflow table info via OpenDayLight RESTCONF
I'm trying to connect several openflow OVS instances to OpenDayLight SDN.
My switches succesfully attached and I can get the nodes informations via the following RESTCONF request:
/rests/data/...
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Blocking mac spoofing on libvirt guests using openflow
I have a couple of kvm vms running with libvirt and they are using openvswitch bridges. I need a mechanism to prevent mac spoofing on a guest. I tried libvirt filters no-mac-spoofing and clean-traffic ...
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Rate limiting using openflow
I'm trying to perform rate limiting using Queues on Openflow. I've been using 3 files. One to create the topology (top.py), one to create the policies (pol.py) and one to create queues (queue.py).
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OVS and IPFIX :: Why is my bridge only exporting bridge-to-collector flows?
I’m new to OVS and trying to get IPFIX working on my OVS bridge. I’m building off the great information in this previous post:
https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/5848/how-to-get-...
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What flow rules to add to the table for L2 Forwarding in open vSwitch?
I am performing an experiment on 2 Xeon based servers. Both the servers have two dual port NIC, total 4 NICs. OVS is running on one server and DPDK pktgen on the other server.
I tried to add flow ...
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Automatic OpenFlow Timeout Messaging
This question might come off as slightly hypothetical, but I couldn't figure how else to ask it.
The OpenFlow protocol has a feature which lets its rules get deleted when no traffic matches them. ...
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network switch features recommended for use with open vswitch
I am looking to setup openvswitch to use with a handful (<10) servers and need a couple of ethernet switches to implement this.
Are there any features that are recommended to be present in the ...
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How to set network configuration for openflow on openwrt?
I made a custom build Openwrt (barrier breaker) with Openflow 1.3 and I could connect it to ryo simple_switch_13 controller in outofband mode. Ehternet port number 3 and 4 are set as openflow ports ...
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How to parse OpenFlow packets using tcpdump capture file programmatically
I am working with OpenFlow packets and am analyzing the network via tcpdump.
Currently, I use the WireShark GUI to parse the generated capture file and it does serve my need.
However, I was ...
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GRE Mesh to GRE Star in open virtual switch
i have 3 kvm hosts running open vswitch with many virtual machines.
These vms are on two separate tenants and GRE tunnel carries private traffic between these 3 hosts.
But is there a better way to ...
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Command to check openflow version
I Installed mininet in Ubuntu system, By default openflow also installing with mininet. But how can I know the installed version of openflow?
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./pox.py log.level --DEBUG forwarding.l2_learning not working as expected
I have installed openvswitch on my PC with runs Ubuntu 12.04.I also have virtual box running on my PC with 3 virtual machines (Ubuntu 12.04) running on them. are named
vm-1
vm-2
vm-3
I have ...
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VLAN based rate limiting using tc
I have been trying to perform VLAN based rate limiting on an academic project I am working on. The project uses Openflow (with Beacon controller) and the network is emulated using Mininet. The network ...
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Looking for OpenFlow capable Converged Switch [closed]
I'm looking for a switch with the following features:
has GBit and 10GBit ethernet interfaces
has FibreChannel Uplink ports (4 & 8 Gbit)
can use OpenFlow to regulate network traffic.
Does anyone ...
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