[Click] A question about how to use to click to realize packet forwarding

[Roberto Riggio]

Il 25/11/2010 05:10, Kai Chen ha scritto:
> Hi, I am new to click, I have the following requirements, hope someone
> could give me help.
>
> Suppose a network with a central controller, the controller computes
> the routing tables for all the nodes in the network using say shortest
> path routing, and it injects the routing table for each node, then the
> nodes will use these tables to do packet forwarding. The network
> topology could change periodically, which mean the controller needs to
> recompute routing tables upon topology change.
You may want to check the openflow project:

http://www.openflowswitch.org/

In openflow all the logic is moved to a central controller that
then configure every switch in the network. There is also
an implementation of openflow for click.
> Hope someone can tell me how to realize all these, or give me some
> example if possible,
>
> Thanks,
> - Kai
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