[ovs-discuss] Fingerprinting the controller

Azouni Abdelhadi a_azouni at esi.dz
Mon Jan 19 17:26:25 UTC 2015


Thank you for your reply.

Actually, I'm supposing I'm in the dataplane so I don't have a direct
connection to the controller running on port 6633.

Any idea ?

Abdelhadi

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> Have you tried doing a port scan for ports 6633 and 6653?
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 04:20:05PM +0100, Azouni Abdelhadi wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Please, anyone have an idea how to fingerprint an openflow controller
> from
> > the dataplane ?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Abdelhadi
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 1:23 AM, Azouni Abdelhadi <a_azouni at esi.dz>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Thank you for you reply Ben. But I think my question was not very
> clear.
> > > Actually, I wanna find the controller or just detect his presence from
> a
> > > host on the data-plane that doesn't have access to ovs commands
> > >
> > > Thank you
> > >
> > > Abdelhadi
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 1:15 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 06:21:01PM +0100, Azouni Abdelhadi wrote:
> > >> > I'm trying to find a way to fingerprint the controller of a given
> > >> > data-path. It will be very nice if you can give me hints about how
> to
> > >> find
> > >> > the ip address of the controller or just to detect the presence of
> an
> > >> > openflow controller.
> > >>
> > >> "ovs-vsctl get-controller" can report the controller.
> > >>
> > >
> > >
>
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