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



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