[pox-dev] Network complete view

2013-09-11 Thread Amer
Hello, I would like to ask you is there a component in pox can collect the complete network view like the link-state database in OSPF. How is it work, if so?; by listening to port status only or there are something else!!? Best regards, Amer

Re: [pox-dev] About print network status

2013-09-11 Thread Murphy McCauley
A good place to start might be by sending stats queries to the switches and analyzing the replies. You might read the "OpenFlow in POX:OpenFlow Messages:ofp_stats_request - Requesting statistics" section in the POX wiki manual. -- Murphy On Sep 11, 2013, at 7:35 PM, Ali Al-Khamis wrote: > Hi

[pox-dev] About print network status

2013-09-11 Thread Ali Al-Khamis
Hi all,  I am new in POX controller. I would like to ask how the POX controller can print the network's status such as Bandwidth.., so if there is any exchange information of the network or a switch status between the switch and the controller. Regards,  Ali

Re: [pox-dev] loop at topology problem with host_tracker

2013-09-11 Thread Murphy McCauley
This very likely has nothing to do with host_tracker at all and the real problem is that you are running a forwarding component that's not prepared to deal with loops. See the other pox-dev thread from today involving loops, and/or check out the loop question in the FAQ. -- Murphy On Sep 11,

Re: [pox-dev] Does POX supports loops in the topology??

2013-09-11 Thread Murphy McCauley
Most (or all?) of the forwarding components POX ships with will cause broadcast/flood storms when used on topologies with loops by themselves. This isn't a property of POX, but of the specific forwarding components. It can be resolved in multiple ways. One way is to disable flooding on some s

[pox-dev] loop at topology problem with host_tracker

2013-09-11 Thread adria sole
Hi all, I have seen that in a topology where there are loops when I connect a host to a router I get flooded of Possible duplicate host... Is this fixed in any version of host_tracker.py? Thank you in advance

[pox-dev] Does POX supports loops in the topology??

2013-09-11 Thread Dharani Kunnuru
Hello Everyone, I want to use POX controller to distributed control plane ( Logically centralized but physically distributed) . And the topology iam going to use should support loops? So, I want to know whether POX supports loops or not? I have tried with single controller, All hosts are not able