[ovs-dev] POX application

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Sat Aug 6 10:07:20 UTC 2016


Please don't drop the mailing list.

Use a port statistics request.  You should probably ask for details on a
POX mailing list.

On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 10:29:09AM +0200, Francesco Murador wrote:
> Thank you for the answer but this is for my thesis is for research, i don't know if i do the second route you suggest to me it's correct for my professor however how can i poll statistics periodically?
> 
> Inviato da iPhone
> 
> > Il giorno 06/ago/2016, alle ore 08:13, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> ha scritto:
> > 
> >> On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 04:48:38PM +0200, Francesco Murador wrote:
> >> Hi i need some help with POX, i need to realize a pox application that raise a message from openflow switches on mininet, but i need to do a custom openflow message, because all i have to do, it is to check the traffic of my network and than if in an openflow switch there’s a lot of traffic it had to send a message to the controller and than the controller says to the other to use another path, obviously i yet checked how to do the second part, i mean the part to ignore a determinate switch, so my question is…how can i create a custom openflow message in mininet(or pox i don’t know where to start in this part) to send to controller(where i’ll raise as an event)?
> >> I think i need to do this in mininet, but i need some help to understand
> >> Thank you for your help and i hope for a reply.
> >> If you don’t understand something of what i wrote say it to me
> > 
> > It's probably easier just to poll statistics periodically.  Then there's
> > no need to invent anything new.



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