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

[Kai Chen]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Roberto Riggio
<roberto.riggio at create-net.org> wrote:
> 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.

Sounds interesting, where to find that implementation? thanks

>> Hope someone can tell me how to realize all these, or give me some
>> example if possible,
>>
>> Thanks,
>> - Kai
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Kai Chen, PhD Candidate
Dept. of EECS, Northwestern University
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