Packet drops are a part of OpenFlow port statistics.  You'll want to read
the spec section on port stats to understand what's available, then see if
NOX has implemented them.  I remember running a monitor app in the examples
directory, which might be a starting point for you.

-b

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Yao, Yanjun <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Hi all,
>
> We built up a testbed and run several experiment on it. We now want to
> measure the packet drop ratio, too. However, when we built the testbed, we
> did not take this measurement into consideration.
>
> As our testbed works fine, we prefer to make little changes on it to get
> the job done.
>
> For hardware part, we use the Pronto 3240 switch, one PC works as
> controller, and several other PCs send packet between each pair. For
> software part, we installed OpenFlow v1.0 and NOX. All our PCs just have on
> Ethernet port.
>
> I am wondering if we can change NOX code to draw the packet drop ratio from
> the switch. Or are there any other methods can let us do the job without
> having too much changes on the system.
>
> I tried to dig it up on OpenFlow wiki, but did not find a trivial way to do
> that.
>
> Any hint is welcomed.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Yours
> Sincerely
>
>
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