Before I answer, I think I need a bit of clarification. Are you saying you want to extend the switch itself? You want to write additional code that runs in the switch in order to expose switch-specific information via, for example, OpenFlow vendor extensions?
-- Murphy On Aug 10, 2012, at 2:28 PM, senthil arumugam wrote: > Murphy > > Thanks for your quick response. I am bit more concerned ( :=) ) on 'Python is > not supported in Verity)'. > > We plan to try with some code in the switch->controller side to pass some > vendor specifc data items. The corresponding application on controller would > use them to meet our intended functionaities. My understanding is that I can > use pythoon to build the application on the controller. This way, I thought > NOX can be a better framwork than POC since C++ can be used to handle vendor > speicfic data and Pytrhon is for our application. Also the same framwork used > by 'nox_gui.py' can be used to enhance our GUI! > Do you think my above assumption is not right since Verity does not support > Python, thus leaving only C++ as the option? > > If yes, do you recommend POX to build both openflow handler and application? > I understaning is that POX is used only for python, thus may not be suitable > for extending the openflow backend? > > If both are not recommended for our needs, can I stick to 'destiny' branch? > > > Thanks in advance.. > -Senthil > > > > From: Murphy McCauley <[email protected]> > To: Senthil <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 1:25 PM > Subject: Re: [nox-dev] Python GUI script in Veritity > > The GUI is not (yet?) supported in Verity, as it makes heavy use of Python > components in the backend (and Python is not supported in Verity). > > Sorry! > > -- Murphy > > On Aug 10, 2012, at 8:36 AM, Senthil wrote: > > > Hi > > > > The GUI python script under nox/src is missing in VERITITY branch. I have > > seen > > it on Destiny..? > > > > Is it available anywhere else? > > > > thanks > > =Senthil > > > > >
