OK, when i said the control plane, i meant the traditional ones...now i understand, thanks, likely there would be an option to override what is elected by the control plane too for the forwarding plane decision sources then? Sitaarman
>> ....Dave the option you were mentioning would still dependent >> on the control plane, negating some of the advantages of SDN... > > There *has* to be a control plane. With SDN, it doesn't have to be in the > switch, it can be in the controller. If you want to interface with > "standard" switches and routers at the edges of your OpenFlow network, the > controller is going to have to receive and send standard L2 and L3 > topology > discovery messages, and they probably want to ingress and egress from the > switch ports. If you have an OpenFlow "walled garden", then no, the > controller doesnt have to interface with traditional switches and routers, > and you can do whatever you like in the controller to build L2 and L3 > forwarding behavior. > > Regards, > > Dave > > David B. Nelson > Director of Technology > Elbrys Networks, Inc. > www.elbrys.com > +1.603.570.2636 > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ openflow-discuss mailing list openflow-discuss@lists.stanford.edu https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/openflow-discuss
