Hi ian, If you follow the thread, this proposal was bumped. So, no... the controller sends the LLDP.
Regards KK On 14 April 2010 21:41, 曾毓元 <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Martin, > > So it just to do this work ? and other question, > (Q1) What information will be get? Such as, this switch IP, the > neighbor node IP, or something. > (Q2) This LLDP packet sends by who? Is controller or switch. > (Q3) If it is switch to do this work, then it is every switch to do > it? or just one ... > > Because I have ever see this in the openflow switch website. > http://www.openflowswitch.org/wk/index.php/OpenFlow_v1.0#Neighbor_Discovery > > Sorry, I really want to know. > > Thank you so much. > > > > Regards > Ian > > > > 2010/4/15 Martin Casado <[email protected]>: >> That pretty much describes it. Nox uses a very simplistic discovery method >> of sending out a unique LLDP packet per connected switch port. On receipt >> of an LLDP packet it can then determine the link-state based on the incoming >> port and switch that the packet was received on. >> >> .martin >> >>> Dear all: >>> Sorry to bother to everyone. >>> But I am very interested about the NOX Controller can use discovery to >>> find the complete topology. >>> But the related sites are not very detailed description of its >>> process. Anyone can tell me in detail how it is done? >>> >>> research >>> http://noxrepo.org/manual/app-index.html#discovery >>> >>> it only say: >>> Discovery sends LLDP packets out of every switch interface. It uses >>> received LLDP packets to detect switch links, at which time it >>> generates Link_events. >>> >>> >>> Regards >>> Ian >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> nox-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://noxrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/nox-dev_noxrepo.org >>> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > nox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://noxrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/nox-dev_noxrepo.org > _______________________________________________ nox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://noxrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/nox-dev_noxrepo.org
