Yes you have caught my question On 7 Jun 2017 21:24, "Scott Lowe" <scott.l...@scottlowe.org> wrote:
> On 06/07/2017 12:25 PM, Simone Aglianò wrote: > > Ok I have to choose reply all > > My question is the initial question regarding the architecture that I > > have attached, I don t want to turn my switch in a Open Flow switch but > > I would use it like that with Open V Switch I mean I want take the > > advantage of the forwarding capacity of the Catalyst cisco switch but in > > the meantime I would use the Open Flow features. > > > > So If I send a openflow command from the Floodlight, does my > > architecture work as if I had an openflow switch? > > > > Thank you. > > > It sounds like what you're asking is whether you can use Open vSwitch as > an OpenFlow "front-end" for a traditional network switch such as Cisco > Catalyst. OpenFlow commands would come from the Floodlight controller to > OVS, and OVS would do something to communicate to the Catalyst switch, > where the actual data forwarding would occur. Is that what you're asking? > > I'm not aware of any functionality within OVS that would enable you to > do this, nor am I aware of any other project out there that is working > on this sort of functionality. Of course, I could certainly be mistaken. > > -- > Scott >
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