(The Specific Listener for Port Events would be interesting too ;)).

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Julius Bachnick
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Hey Murphy,
>
> I'm more looking for the second approach (cables cut! ;)). What exactly
> would be the listener to listen to?
>
>
> Thank you!
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Murphy McCauley <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Jan 28, 2013, at 9:17 AM, Julius Bachnick wrote:
>>
>> > thank you so much for your support so far! My current issue (and I
>> admit it's a bit urgent ;)) is to listen to Changes in a Port Status of an
>> OVS, for example if a port goes down or is disconnected.
>> >
>> > According to the POX Wiki this can be achievend through using
>> openflow.discovery but I cannot find any example on how to use this.
>>
>> Well, it depends what you mean by a port going down.  If you mean a port
>> being administratively downed, you can see this by listening for port
>> events.  But if you are looking for links which are dying/disappearing
>> (e.g., cables cut), then you  might want to use discovery.  The
>> forwarding.l2_multi component uses discovery.  Basically you just listen to
>> it and it will raise events when links are discovered/"undiscovered".
>>
>> -- Murphy
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