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.
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