On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 03:31:58PM +0100, Daniel Philip wrote: > Is OpenFlow, a connectionless or connection-oriented protocol?
It operates over TCP or SSL, which are connection-oriented protocols. > From my understanding, I believe that it is the controller that > establishes a connection initially and then the packets are forwarded > along the established path. So, it makes OpenFlow a > connection-oriented protocol? In OpenFlow the switch ordinarily initiates the connection to the controller. _______________________________________________ openflow-discuss mailing list openflow-discuss@lists.stanford.edu https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/openflow-discuss