Thanks Guys,
That makes sense.
Aaron
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Dan Talayco wrote:
> There has been a lot of discussion on this over time. It depends a bit on
> the nature of the non-OF switch. For example, if it uses LLDP packets or
> participates in STP, you could at least recognize som
There has been a lot of discussion on this over time. It depends a bit on the
nature of the non-OF switch. For example, if it uses LLDP packets or
participates in STP, you could at least recognize something about the link. You
could also have heuristics like "I see lots of MACs on this link" tho
Normally, non-openflow switches send all sorts of their own, vendor
specific... messages, e.g., HSRP, STP, LLDP, etc. My suggestion would
be to look for these messages and use them to determine if the port on
the OpenFlow switch is connected to a non-OpenFlow switch, and that
will tell you that an
Hello,
I have the following topology and I was wondering if there is any dynamic
way to determine if a host originated from a non-OF switch. In this setup
its's going to appear that hostC is attached to the middle OF switch. (I can
discover the links between the OF switches but I'm not sure how to
