Hi Murphy, How bout that if the switch is a mininet switches? can i say for example add another mininet switch and store the flow table in it? Thanks.
Regards, Anthony On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Murphy McCauley <[email protected] > wrote: > I'm not sure I understand the question. If you mean you want to have one > switch install a flow in another switch, then no, because switches don't > communicate amongst themselves -- only with controllers. In most cases a > *copied* table entry wouldn't be that useful anyway since, for example, > port numbers would likely be different on the different switches. > > It is, however, easy enough to install slightly different table entries on > all your switches from the controller that all match the same traffic... > > -- Murphy > > On Jul 11, 2012, at 6:10 AM, Anthony Salim wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > > Is there any function in openflow that can be used to duplicate (copy) > flow table entries in the switches? Thanks. > > > > lets say if i have a flow with same source and destination, it will go > through that switch flow table and forward the packet accordingly and also > make a copy of flow entry in another flow table lets say another switch. > > > > Regards, > > Anthony > >
