Like I said, it's buggy. I'm doing some after-hours hacking on it tonight. Perhaps I'll get it working.
I got my copy of oftest from that repo. I'm basing on commit b371430baebd8c3b130e418e0c6f5a5a2144ece2 "Merge branch 'kenc'". On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:25:30PM -0700, Rob Sherwood wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Thanks for the work! I haven't worked on OFTest in a bit, but I'll > forward this on to people who are actively working on it and see if we > can merge your code or at least give comments, etc. > > For my sanity, where did you get oftest? The most current version > lives at g...@github.com:floodlight/oftest . > > Thanks again, > > - Rob > . > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > It's somewhat difficult to use OFTest, in my opinion, because you need > > to be root, work with OS network devices, and so on. Today I played > > around with some code to avoid those two needs. > > > > First, I have a patch series starting here: > > http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2012-October/022300.html > > that adds an ability for OVS to use Unix domain sockets as simulated > > network devices. > > > > Second, I'm attaching a file meant to be put in platforms/dummy.py in > > the OFTest tree to use these simulated network devices. > > > > Finally, I'm attaching a shell script that starts OVS in a sandboxed > > mode using these dummy devices. > > > > It passes a few tests; I've only tried a few. > > > > Now that I look at it, there are some bugs here that will prevent > > traffic from actually passing through, but they are not fundamental to > > the approach. I'm mostly passing this along in case anyone wants to > > comment on the idea; I've already spent more time on it than I should > > have. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > openflow-dev mailing list > > openflow-...@lists.stanford.edu > > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/openflow-dev > > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
