On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 06:49:36PM +0100, Giorgio Buffa wrote: > Two pictures with the scenario and the role of OVS in this scenario are > attached. Following a brief explanation. > > I would like to have a legacy network device (i.e. with no support to > OpenFlow) to be monitored and controlled by an OpenFlow Controller via the > OpenFlow Protocol. > > Thus, the OpenFlow Protocol is to be translated to the management protocol > exposed by the network device (e.g., SNMP) by an adaptation layer, and vice > versa.
It seems unlikely to me that SNMP features exposed by any given legacy network device are adequate to implement OpenFlow. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
