thanks man this is wat i wanted
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Dan Talayco <dan.tala...@bigswitch.com>wrote: > Traditionally, ofdatapath was the component that did the data path > forwarding. It was plumbed with data plane interfaces and received and > forwarded packets. > > ofprotocol was the component that managed the connection to the openflow > controller. > > As directives that updated the forwarding data path tables were received > by ofprotocol, they were forwarded to ofdatapath; in the case where > ofdatapath is/was a kernel module, this was done with a netlink socket > pretty much just forwarding the appropriate OpenFlow messages across the > link. > > Shameless plug: The Indigo-2 architecture uses a simliar functional > decomposition, but between the connection management functionality > (OFConnectionManager) and the forwarding component, it defines the > OFStateManager. An API is defined between OFStateManager and Forwarding > which is closer to an object model (it's in C). The OFStateManager > provides database-like query functionality for the flow table which has > different optimization criteria than the requirements that come from the > forwarding component (either fast packet lookups for a virtual switch, or > ASIC specific hardware table management mechanisms for a physical switch). > > -Dan > > > > > > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Shabbir Ahmed <shabbir1...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I want to know wat these two daemons do, >> >> ofdatapath >> ofprotocol >> >> I asume ofdatapath is the forwarding plane of openflow protocol and >> listens on tcp:6634 >> >> ofprotcol is teh control plane of the control which could be local or >> remote port, >> >> now on openwrt i must have ofdatapath be running all the time and it >> should conect to ofprotocol on port 6633 either local or global. >> >> my openwrt is not running ofdatapath. >> >> thanks >> >> _______________________________________________ >> openflow-discuss mailing list >> openflow-discuss@lists.stanford.edu >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/openflow-discuss >> >> >
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