On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 03:15:50PM -0500, harsha natarajan wrote: > I would like to get your suggestions and inputs on my ideas > please....... I am trying to build a small openflow network as shown in > the figure below - Here I will be using only 2 openflow switch (i.e pc1 > and pc3). As shown in the figure we would need 3 ethernet card for PC1 and > PC3...
I'm curious - and this is a question for the list as well - is there some advantage to building a router out of a PC, rather than using an OpenWRT box using the Pantou firmware? <http://www.openflow.org/wk/index.php/Pantou_:_OpenFlow_1.0_for_OpenWRT> I have only just begun to work with it, but with the TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND, which costs around $55, I can get four GigE 'user' ports and one more for the controller, with 43.5 Mbps between ports. There's the potential to use the WiFi side as well, though I haven't tested it yet. It seems as though the software setup would be roughly the same if the PCs would be running Linux with the OpenFlow reference distribution userspace switch. Unfortunately Pantou would not be an option if you're planning to use the OpenVSwitch kernel implementation. Thanks, Bill. _______________________________________________ openflow-discuss mailing list openflow-discuss@lists.stanford.edu https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/openflow-discuss
