Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] DESIGN: Describe principles of in-band control.

2012-04-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 10:10:35AM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote: > This is great, Ben. Just a few minor things: > > > +Out-of-band control has the following benefits: > > + > > +- Simplicity: Out-of-band control slightly simplifies the switch > > + implementation. > > + > > +- Reliabil

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] DESIGN: Describe principles of in-band control.

2012-04-22 Thread Justin Pettit
This is great, Ben. Just a few minor things: > +Out-of-band control has the following benefits: > + > +- Simplicity: Out-of-band control slightly simplifies the switch > + implementation. > + > +- Reliability: Excessive switch traffic volume cannot interfere > + with control tra

[ovs-dev] [PATCH] DESIGN: Describe principles of in-band control.

2012-04-20 Thread Ben Pfaff
These principles are drawn from an email I sent to the openflow-spec list long ago. Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff --- DESIGN | 160 +-- 1 files changed, 144 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/DESIGN b/DESIGN index ec29e39..11b052c