On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 07:27 -0800, Martin Casado wrote: > This is a common misunderstanding about OpenFlow. It does not require > the first packet of each flow to go to the controller.
I am reading this to mean that the switch CPU will resolve things? Typically those tend to be tiny cpus. > In fact, no > production system I'm aware of does this. Generally OpenFlow-based > solutions targeted at large environments (e.g. data center, or WAN) > send only traditional control traffic to the controller (e.g. BGP or > OSPF), or none at all. Even OSPF or BGP would be problematic imo if the architecture doesnt allow prioritization of some form towards the controller. cheers, jamal _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
