The controll plane is a saperate computer and data plan is saperate both has their own ip address for communication, controll plan has more data and gives u access to decied better. data plan only forwards the packets as directed by the controll plane.
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Luca Prete <luca.pr...@garr.it> wrote: > Hi Ambika, > > I don't know if I get correctly your question. Anyway, I'll try ;) > > The communication between switches and controller(s) is ususally based on > TCP active connection from switches to controller. The controller has its > own ip address accessible from the switches. Typical ovs-vsctl show command > on open v switch is "tcp:xxx.yyy.zzz.www:6633". > > Hoping to help you, > > Luca P. > > Il 09/03/2013 04:28, Ambika Mohanty (ammohant) ha scritto: > > Hi Everyone, >> In the SDN world the control plane will terminate at the Server and >> the data plane at the switch. Who owns the IP address where this >> communication is happening ? If it is the data plane then how does the >> corresponding control packets(destined to the same IP) reach the server. >> >> regards >> Ambika >> ______________________________**_________________ >> openflow-discuss mailing list >> openflow-discuss@lists.**stanford.edu<openflow-discuss@lists.stanford.edu> >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/**mailman/listinfo/openflow-**discuss<https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/openflow-discuss> >> > > ______________________________**_________________ > openflow-discuss mailing list > openflow-discuss@lists.**stanford.edu<openflow-discuss@lists.stanford.edu> > https://mailman.stanford.edu/**mailman/listinfo/openflow-**discuss<https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/openflow-discuss> >
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