Giogio, I think the LegacyFlow project may fit your needs: http://code.google.com/p/legacyflow/
Check it out! -Christian -- Christian Esteve Rothenberg, Ph.D. Converged Networks Division (DRC) Tel.:+55 19-3705-4479 / Cel.: +55 19-8193-7087 est...@cpqd.com.br www.cpqd.com.br On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 15:10, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > I guess that I would probably implement a new ofproto provider that > includes the features that you can support. You can register your new > ofproto provider by inserting a call to ofproto_class_register() into > ofproto_initialize(), in ofproto/ofproto.c. > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 07:10:45PM +0100, Giorgio Buffa wrote: > > Hello Ben, > > Yes, you're definitely right! But this is not about implementing > OpenFlow: > > I just want to realize a management interface translation for the > features > > that is possible to translate (e.g. port statistics retrieval). > > > > Is up to the legacy network device to provide switching, routing, VLAN > > tagging and so on, via hardware. Open vSwitch would just provide to me an > > OpenFlow library/codebase, management framework and tools to be used by > the > > adaptation module. > > > > Kind regards, > > Giorgio Buffa > > > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > > > > 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 > -- Christian
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