I was looking for the cheapest and easiest way to have an OpenFlow switch to run my experiment with Floodlight and Flowvisor. I think that the easiest and cheapest way is run Open vSwitch on Linux operating system having an adapter usb to multiple ethernet ports, isn´t it? I think to run it in linux virtual machine what do you think about it?
BTW, thank you for having referenced me OpenWrt projects. On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Raymond Burkholder <r...@oneunified.net> wrote: > > On 9 Jun 2017, at 08:26, Simone Aglianò <simoagli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I m interested also in a desktop switch with just 4 ports > > On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Simone Aglianò <simoagli...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Does anyone know which is the cheapest switch with OpenFlow enabled or on >> which I can update the firmware or a Linux-based switch on which I can >> install OpenVSwitch? >> > > I think at this point, you are actually asking two or more different > questions. What is it that you are really looking for? a) openvswitch > switching? b) open flow based switching? c) hardware accelerated > openvswitch? d) openvswitch to handle open flow hardware acceleration? e) > hardware accelerated open flow? > > Someone mentioned the Zodiac. I believe that is an OpenFlow-only switch — > you don’t get to run openvswitch or linux on it. You need to run a > separate controller to control the Zodiac. > > If you want to run OpenvSwitch on something, you can use almost anything. > I use devices from http://www.lannerinc.com (no personal affiliation) to > install Linux and run OpenvSwitch. Forwarding speeds are amazing, even if > they are not hardware accelerated. > > OpenvSwitch is a special animal: it can be used to process-based switch > packets between ports. And it can be used as an software based OpenFlow > switch. it can run on anything you run linux and has multiple network > ports. > > You can take a look at the LEDE/openwrt projects — I think they use > openvswitch in some form for some of their routing/switching/security > elements. That would get you a really inexpensive four port switch, > running linux, and some version of openvswitch. Again, it depends, for > what combination of openvswitch/openflow/hardware acceleration are you > looking? > > If you can wait a bit more, the Mellanox guys are working through an > interesting concept of hardware accelerating Openvswitch through the linux > tc flower mechanism. At that point, with mellanox hardware, you can then > get Openvswitch/openflow/hardware acceleration, all under one roof. > > > > >> Best regards, >> Simone >> >> On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Simone Aglianò <simoagli...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Thank you, but I didn't find it for Catalyst Switch 2960 24-TTL >>> >>> On 8 Jun 2017 23:05, "Ian Pilcher" <arequip...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On 06/07/2017 02:29 PM, Simone Aglianò wrote: >>>> >>>>> Yes you have caught my question >>>>> >>>> >>>> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=cisco+catalyst+openflow >>>> >>>> > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by *MailScanner* <http://www.mailscanner.info/>, and is > believed to be clean. >
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