hi.. thanks for the quick reply. what is the role of pyrt component in NOX?
________________________________ From: Martin Casado <[email protected]> To: Ali M <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Thu, November 12, 2009 5:09:03 AM Subject: Re: [nox-dev] need for authenticator Inline: (btw apologies to other posters on this list, I've been slammed and am really behind. If you have an outstanding question we've not gotten to, feel free to repost): > Hi All, > > I am new to nox controller and need some clarifications. > First doubt is regarding authenticator. > > In nox.cc code we have: > > void Handshake_fsm::check_switch_auth() { > Switch_Auth* auth = nox::get_switch_auth(); if(!auth) { lg.dbg("No > switch auth module registered, auto-approving switch\n"); switch_approved > = true; > state = REGISTER_SWITCH; run(); > return; } > > Does this mean that switches are always auto-authenticated? How about hosts? > Are they also auto-authenticated? > > Under that default configuration, yes, switches are always auto-authenticated. If you want to change this behaviour, you can register a Switch_Auth object with the Handshake_fsm. Hosts are automatically allowed on the network as well. > Second doubt is regarding PYRT that loads description files etc. I have not > been able to trace the function in nox_main.cc or nox.cc calling PYRT? > > > http://noxrepo.org/pipermail/nox-dev_noxrepo.org/2009-October/000880.html > > > pyrt is just another component so is loaded via the dso-deployer in src/builtin/ ..martin > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > nox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://noxrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/nox-dev_noxrepo.org >
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