Hi, Thanks for clarifying the things. I have gotten one more question from this.
If 'local networking stack' means host's IP stack, then what is the difference between LOCAL & NORMAL. As document says about NORMAL, "Process the packet using the traditional non-OpenFlow pipeline of the switch". I think that traditional non-OpenFlow pipeline also means the "host's IP stack". Please correct me if I am wrong. Thanks. Regards On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 11:23:23PM +0500, Tahir Rauf wrote: > > I am quite new to OpenFlow, so please be patient on my basic question. I > > just want to ask that while describing the LOCAL optional action of > switch, > > the openflow document states "Send the packet to the switch's local > > networking stack". Can somebody please explain that what is 'switch's > local > > networking stack'? > > In the OpenFlow reference implementation or Open vSwitch, it's the > host's IP stack. For example, on Linux, this is the Linux network > stack, which you can use to configure an IP address for the OpenFlow > switch itself. > -- Tahir Rauf High Performance Computing Lab http://hpc.seecs.edu.pk/~tahir.rauf/ SEECS-NUST,
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