On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 04:38:19PM +0100, Giorgio Buffa wrote: > I would like to use Open vSwitch for the monitoring/control of a legacy > data plane (i.e. with no support to OpenFlow). The idea is to extend OVS to > make it an adapter between the OpenFlow protocol (used by the control > plane) and SNMP (exposed by the underlying network devices). I'm evaluating > whether I can use OVS as the base for such adapter. > > I've studied the PORTING documentation, and relative interfaces > (lib/netdev-provider.h , lib/dpif-provider.h , ofproto/ofproto-provider.h). > The problem is I cannot figure out how to deploy my own module (the one > which would provide the adaptation layer between OpenFlow and SNMP). In > other words, how do I configure OVS to load/use my module as the Openflow > datapath to be controlled?
It's really unclear to me what exactly you want to do. Could you implement what you want to do as an OpenFlow controller, or as an OpenFlow flow table, for example? Can you give an example of what your module or your adaptation layer would do? _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
