I think you may be making the distinction between what we would call
in-band and out-of-band control. There's a good explanation in the DESIGN
file of the Open vSwitch repo:
http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=blob;f=DESIGN
Look for the "In-Band Control" section.
--Justin
On 4/27/12 11:21 PM, "星言 墨虚" <beyond1...@yahoo.cn> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Sorry to bother you.
>
>But I have a question that I create a testbed of openflow using NOX and
>OpenvSwitch and I connect NOX to OpenvSwitch by a direct link which is a
>real cable.
>
>Now, I want to know that could I not use a real cable to connect NOX and
>OpenvSwitch but use the cable of data network between OpenvSwitches? And
>the reason for it.
>
>Thanks very much.
>
>-- Tony
>
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