Hi,

I am not sure why also but i guess its all down to the some processes still
not yet being removed, actually you are right that can run nox in different
ports under single directory. I killed all the processes first and then run
it, it works!! Thanks.

Regards,
Anthony

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Anthony Salim <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Hmm..because in a network, its not possible to have all flows go into one
> controller only so i try to reduce the load by having one or more
> controllers. I tried to run in same directory but it does not work because
> it said the address already in use, however i tried to duplicate the nox
> and it worked. Both processes are running now and i just need to 'link'
> them up together so that i can split some load.
>
> Regards,
> Anthony
>
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Kyriakos Zarifis 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> There is no link, they aren't really connected to each other. You just
>> have 2 processes running. But these 2 controllers do not (can not) talk to
>> each other.
>> Switches can connect to either one or the other, but there is no support
>> for multiple controllers with NOX, nor any protocol for
>> controller-to-controller communication defined.
>>
>> FWIW, I guess you could just start 2 controllers in the same directory
>> (no need to duplicate the tree), running them on different ports.
>> However, it's not very common practice to run multiple NOX controllers,
>> because there is not too much you can do with them.
>> (What are you trying to do?)
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Anthony Salim <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> Basically i just copied the folder of original nox controller to another
>>> folder (am i doing the right thing?) and then run each controller using
>>> different ports eg. ./nox_core -v -i ptcp:6633 and the other using
>>> ./nox_core -v -i ptcp:6634. Well from the terminal it seems there is no
>>> conflict or whatsoever. So how am i supposed to show the link between these
>>> two controllers that they are connected to each other? Thanks.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Anthony
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Anthony Salim <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> HI guys,
>>>>
>>>> Just wondering if i want to have a multiple controllers in one virtual
>>>> machine, how do i go about it to create multiple controllers (can just copy
>>>> down the nox folder?) ? I want to have maybe one controller using port 6633
>>>> and the other using port 6634, or can both controller having different IP
>>>> addreses even though there are in same VM. Thanks!!
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Anthony
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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