Thanks for quickly relpy, Murphy. I guess I need to use openflow.discovery
component as well like below, right?

./pox forwarding.l2_multi openflow.spanning_tree openflow.discovery

How about my other question?
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For this purpose, I want my controller (POX) to discover all switches (w/
ports) and links with their corresponding QoS values and store them for
future QoS routing. Does the discovery.py component do what I explained
without QoS values?


Thanks,
Murat



On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:16 AM, Murphy McCauley <murphy.mccau...@gmail.com
> wrote:

> l2_multi is an example that does shortest paths between endpoints (it uses
> Floyd-Warshall instead of Dijkstra's, but that's just a detail).  And the
> spanning_tree component doesn't disable entire ports, IIRC -- just flooding
> on those ports.  So if you have loops and use l2_multi and spanning_tree,
> when the destination is known, you get a shortest path.  When the
> destination isn't known or is multicast/broadcast, it uses the tree.
>
> -- Murphy
>
> On Feb 17, 2015, at 9:09 PM, Murat Karakus <muratkaraku...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to implement a network having loops (e.g. 4 switches connected
> to each other and one host connected to each switch). When I try to ping a
> host, it does not work because of the loops. Using spanning_tree component
> may work in this case but I don't want it since it deletes a port to get
> out of the loop which reduces the possible multi paths between src and dst.
> I don't want this because I want to route my packets based on QoS values of
> links. (i.e. if one path from the loop does not meet the QoS requirement,
> another may meet.)
>
> For this purpose, I want my controller (POX) to discover all switches (w/
> ports) and links with their corresponding QoS values and store them for
> future QoS routing. Does the discovery.py component do what I explained
> without QoS values?
>
> Also, is there any (already implemented in POX) routing component like
> Dijkstra algorithm to find a path between given src and dst? Or, we should
> implement it?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Murat
>
>
>
>

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