> I see. As recent OVS changelogs do not mention anything like this, I guess > it is still not natively supported.
I can confirm that OVS does not currently support LLDP. It's not that hard to implement so patches are always welcome. Would be nice to have. Ethan > > > > That is fine, as there are other tools out there. > > > > Thanks! > > Joon > > > > > > From: Robin Wang [mailto:cloudbe...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 10:42 AM > To: Kim, Hyojoon > Cc: discuss@openvswitch.org > Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Topology discovery in ovs > > > > Hi Kim, > > > > I found an email that indicates OVS doesn't have built-in support. But it > was a year ago, not sure whether it's supported now. > > http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/discuss/2011-July/005400.html > > > > For sFlow, to me, it is similar to NetFlow, and usually used to track > dynamic traffic in a network with the help of flow collector. There're lots > of different collectors. What you can get through sFlow depends on what > features the collector provides, not OVS. Not sure if there's a collector > provides topology things. Maybe someone who is familiar with collector could > give us some advice. Thanks. > > > > Best, > > Robin > > 2012/6/5 Kim, Hyojoon <jo...@gatech.edu> > > Hi all, > > > > What is the most common way to do layer-2 network topology discovery in OVS? > Some searching gives me a hint that people install lldpd, and query that > table once it’s populated. Is this the most common way? > > > > I figured out there is no SNMP support in OVS, but there is sFlow. Is sFlow > in OVS capable of doing topology discovery? It gives me a feeling that it is > more about traffic monitoring. > > > > Thanks, > > Joon > > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > discuss@openvswitch.org > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > discuss@openvswitch.org > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
