On 1/15/14, 1:07 PM, "John Thoe" <[email protected]> wrote:
>I am coming here from the mininet-discuss list. My question is that I >know the switches in Mininet are L2 switches (I know that there is only >the concept of flows, but at a higher level) > >My question is how can I make the switches act as routers? Earlier >discussions show that this was not possible because Openflow didn't >support TTL modifications. But this has changed now clearly as >documentation indicates. > >Is there some existing work on this I can look at? my idea is to replace >the switches and make them act as L3 routers. All the actions are there in OpenFlow to implement a router, but none of the logic. You'd need some sort of controller to handle things like routes, ARP, and ICMP. I don't know of any open source controllers that support that, but I don't keep up on it that well, either. --Justin _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
