My first guess is that you're not installing flows that match multiple UDP 
packets, so every UDP packet is being sent as a packet_in to NOX and then back 
to the switch as a packet_out or flow_mod.  You can confirm this by using the 
OpenFlow dissector for Wireshark and monitoring the switch<-->controller 
traffic.

-- Murphy

On Mar 27, 2012, at 9:47 AM, Francesco Pocci wrote:

> Hi guys,
> I'm testing a network that uses the OpenFlow protocol and nox as
> controller, and I am using iperf to test it. The results I get are
> strange, because when I use iperf with TCP packets the  resulting
> bandwith is 30MBits/sec, while when using iperf with UDP the resulting
> bandwidth 1.05MBits/sec and this happens in every test that I make.
> the topology of my net is
> 
>                 nox
>                   |
> pc1--------OFswitch------pc2
> 
> are there limitations in controller nox for UDP packets?
> what could be the problem ?
> best regards
> F.P.

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