Hi,

Thanks for the detailed explanation, it was a great help.

2011/3/16 Kyriakos Zarifis <[email protected]>

> Hi Paulo,
>
> tou could definitely have multiple NOX instances running, and if a switch
> loses connection to one it can connect to the other, if configured to do so.
> However, network disruption depends on whether the state in the two
> controllers (or the components running in the 2 controllers) needs to be
> identical. NOX does not inherently support such kind of replication/state
> distribution at the moment.
>
> As a simple example: if you are running something like the learning switch
> component, the disruption would not be critical as, in the worst case, the
> backup controller would need to recreate the state for its switch component
> (by initially flooding packets). So this wouldn't even necesarrily require
> any coordination between the controllers.
> There can be other cases however where the state in the backup controller
> would need to be synched with that in the primary at all times.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Paulo César <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> thanks for the reply.
>>
>> This secondary controller must be kept consistent with the primary (same
>> context and applications) to prevent perfomace loss?
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>>
>> 2011/3/16 Aaron Rosen <[email protected]>
>>
>>> Hi Paulo,
>>>
>>> When you configure your openflow switch there are usually options to
>>> configure it with a secondary controller in case your primary
>>> controller dies.
>>>
>>> Aaron
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Paulo César <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> > the paper "NOX: Towards an Operating System for Networks", says that
>>> > centralized paradigm raises the specter of a single point of failure,
>>> but
>>> > can
>>> > achieve adequate resilience applying standard replication techniques.
>>> > I would like to know if there is some way (currently available or in
>>> > development) to replicate NOX in case of NOX failure?
>>> > Best regards.
>>> >
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>>
>>
>>
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