Thanks Martin! That will be of great help.
Martin Casado wrote:
> Agreed. We'll add a "life of a packet" walk through when we update the
> documentation.
>> Hi Martin...
>>
>> a step-by-step journey from the end-host to switch and then to a controller
>> in a very simple network will be of great help. Even for some very basic
>> components would enable greater understanding.... regards.
>>
>> Martin Casado wrote:
>>
>>> Agreed, this is sorely needed. To be clear, what happens internal to Nox
>>> depends on the components being run. Perhaps a step-by-step description of
>>> path setup with the basic components (authenticator, routing) would be most
>>> useful?
>>>
>>>> Need a little help. I am going through the code of NOX-full version 0.5
>>>> (beta). I would like to know if there is a object diagram or sequence
>>>> diagram for the code. Specifically I wish to know if there is some
>>>> flowchart that shows the life of a packet in the NOX network right from
>>>> the moment it originates from the end-host, it goes to the OF Switch
>>>> (reference implementation) and then to the NOX Controller.
>>>>
>>>> It will be helpful for me to understand the code if such a reference
>>>> exists.
>>>>
>>>> Since it is the full version, there are various management applications in
>>>> the component class. I do not have a test-setup to experiment and
>>>> understand the flow in details.
>>>>
>>>> I am able to get some information from the nox-mailing list, as for
>>>> example the description given by Martin here:
>>>>
>>>> http://noxrepo.org/pipermail/nox-dev_noxrepo.org/2009-October/000882.html
>>>>
>>>> and similar posts does through some light. But, if some flow-diagram or
>>>> sequence diagram exists in, would be of great help. Infact, I would
>>>> eventually like to test in the setup similar to the one shown in here:
>>>> http://noxrepo.org/pipermail/nox-dev_noxrepo.org/2009-October/000872.html
>>>>
>>>> but, with all the switches in the same subnet (since as Martin mentioned,
>>>> different subnets would not work).
>>>>
>>>> Anyway information on the flow would be helpful.
>>>>
>>>> Regs.
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