[ovs-discuss] Routers in Openflow

[abhishek jain]

Hi John ..

You can use Opendaylight Controller.
I'm able to ping hosts in different subnets using this.

Thanks..


On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:54 AM, Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com> wrote:

> On 1/15/14, 1:07 PM, "John Thoe" <johnthoe at outlook.com> wrote:
>
> >I am coming here from the mininet-discuss list. My question is that I
> >know the switches in Mininet are L2 switches (I know that there is only
> >the concept of flows, but at a higher level)
> >
> >My question is how can I make the switches act as routers? Earlier
> >discussions show that this was not possible because Openflow didn't
> >support TTL modifications. But this has changed now clearly as
> >documentation indicates.
> >
> >Is there some existing work on this I can look at? my idea is to replace
> >the switches and make them act as L3 routers.
>
> All the actions are there in OpenFlow to implement a router, but none of
> the logic.  You'd need some sort of controller to handle things like
> routes, ARP, and ICMP.  I don't know of any open source controllers that
> support that, but I don't keep up on it that well, either.
>
> --Justin
>
>
>
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