Quagga = Control Plane (BGP/OSPF/ISIS/RIP/etc routing engine) OS Networking Stack = Data Plane
You can magic quagga to speak to another `data plane` or you can extract quaggas routing decisions from the OS (Linux Netlink for eg) to write to a dataplane (as cumulus does). On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 4:26 PM srujan k <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > what is SDN? My understanding as follows. > Traditional routers have their control plane and data plane are coupled > together and will be used for communication. Control plane is brain for > making decisions and data-plane is carrier/forwarder to transfer the > packets. These 2 planes reside in the same hardware. Data-plane uses some > powerful asics/processors for forwarding, but control plane is a software > which decides the best entries to be inserted into routing table. With SDN, > these 2 planes are divided into separate machines. There will be a control > plane (server) who receives the messages from clients(control/data-plane) > and processes. > > Since quagga is control plane software which can act as Server and > processes the messages. Please throw some pointers and > uses/advantages/disadvantages about integration quagga for SDN. > > My most of the statements may be wrong, please correct if necessary. > > Regards, > Srujan > _______________________________________________ > Quagga-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.quagga.net/mailman/listinfo/quagga-dev
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