-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 11.08.2014 17:38, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 09:53:09AM +0200, Dariusz Dwornikowski > wrote: >> Source: openvswitch Severity: wishlist >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> Tomasz Buchert and I are working on introducing mininet, an SDN >> emulator (http://mininet.org/) to Debian. Mininet heavily depends >> on ovsk to provide OpenFlow switch but also an OpenFlow >> controller. >> >> Ovsk starting from version 2.1 ships ovsk-controller as >> test-controller and resides in tests/ directory of the main >> source. >>> From the NEWS of ovsk source: >> >> - ovs-controller has been renamed test-controller. It is no >> longer packaged or installed by default, because too many users >> assumed incorrectly that ovs-controller was a necessary or >> desirable part of an Open vSwitch deployment. > > Why do you keep referring to ovs as ovsk? We have never shipped > anything under that name. >
Forgive me for that, it is just a silly mistake on my side. > Why can't mininet use a real controller instead of the useless > test program from OVS? > Mininet is just an emulator, using test controller from OVS makes it easy to start with and use by people who start with OpenFlow and SDNs. Using an OVS controller is one of the major options in mininet, and in fact the default behavior. You can always use external controller with - --remote option in mininet. If we ship mininet package without having OVS controller to use, we will be shipping partially unusable software. - -- Dariusz Dwornikowski, Institute of Computing Science, Poznań University of Technology www.cs.put.poznan.pl/ddwornikowski/ room 2.7.2 BTiCW | tel. +48 61 665 29 41 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJT6QivAAoJECEac8aaew/HcIYP/iojQVnv9XxkWqVmCCmBDhA8 BvVbY9gskKXVHApPjtCfqUgABqpsusswlpyi8yLRU+uKa/Tdm28kS0Ug10igZkzT 0sVVTmfmt4gCXemwQrYVlVihBRpi86gWdCwoM/6uTJplbu3FT5346Vqc9lPK19Je zojun66mzY0rp0m0gK48Ld9o3BOaHIxj+wPrkvWljkJXMUQe0ddhM6X/5vSingdK p//6XxufMpAr8XHBIqGQ7puD36u4lHe8J+6d2u8GW0nKVt+ZkK6BRnlnAzNl5tNE CRyhrH/CKj/9EP3cZomNIjJ1XCKBzhesV+wf0Yj1qSrTXJFugzf0LBKDqFNAazFe AKlTdHuxZsf3FtNEPqYrO32msWX009SAPwhF4FisAo9cCSQgJvsNSXmoaIbdhhQ5 JwArcsJgeL2UcLUYF/RpbTnRY6rkNrn3K5wif/yNI0yzwpLgnABR9TomAdsEZryd Wir0TI1yEJAIu6BYsfXYlRhl+U8DnQE5Huat8DlJ6K2MxqUNdtjiFXmwqe5leYJI bQr8JsHYUXA2LMRNQdOXLFYhacCp/LLzboYidgOkHTC61qDS1oswjkxuxL0FG3Mf aNgNL+J+qZrRby+L+aqINrIW0iF1VWWj9c8HOp7Ih6y5B+DYDr+soyQbmoR8v6sC JTfzwhV2jOEm8DlhaVuU =2lo9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
