Dear OpenFlow community, we are glad to announce the official start of the RouteFlow project: http://www.openflowhub.org/display/routeflow/RouteFlow+Home
How to provide innovative IP routing approaches in OpenFlow networks? This is the question that triggered our work at CPqD resulting in RouteFlow (formerly QuagFlow), our modest contribution to the OpenFlow community. The main goal of RouteFlow is to develop an open-source framework (Apache-licensed) to provide virtualized IP routing services over OpenFlow networks. RouteFlow aims at a commodity routing architecture that combines the line-rate performance of OpenFlow-enabled devices with the flexibility of open-source routing stacks (such as Quagga) running on general purpose computers. RouteFlow is far from being a complete solution but it provides a general framework to combine OpenFlow with traditional IP routing protocols (e.g. OSPF, BGP, IS-IS) running in Linux-based virtual environments. There are several uses cases and modes of operation that experimenters/developers may think of, starting from "traditional" virtual routers to more elaborated mapping of logical router engines to OpenFlow-enabled resources with different options with regard to how routing protocol messages flow between the virtual and physical planes. For further information, check the project documentation and install instructions: https://sites.google.com/site/routeflow/documents This 4-page paper summarizes the RouteFlow architecture and design objectives: https://sites.google.com/site/routeflow/documents/routeflow-virtual-ip-sdn-CFI-2011.pdf?attredirects=0 There is also a step-by-step tutorial: Your first RouteFlow network: https://sites.google.com/site/routeflow/documents/first-routeflow Download RouteFlow from github: https://github.com/CPqD/RouteFlow The RouteFlow project looks forward for your comments and contributions! We welcome you to use and watch the OpenFlowHub-based Features and Bug tracking system: http://bugs.openflowhub.org/browse/RouteFlow Feel free to use the RouteFlow Forum to post your comments, suggest new features, or discuss anything you want: http://forums.openflowhub.org/forum.php In addition, you can subscribe to the mailing-list (http://groups.google.com/group/routeflow-discuss?hl=en_US) and ask questions via: [email protected] Cheers, Christian (on behalf of the RouteFlow team) -- Christian Esteve Rothenberg, Ph.D. Converged Networks Division (DRC) Tel.:+55 19-3705-4479 / Cel.: +55 19-8193-7087 [email protected] www.cpqd.com.br _______________________________________________ openflow-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/openflow-discuss
