Tag:   OpenFlow

Welcome back to a new article about SDN - this time introducing an OpenFlow controller called Faucet, developed as a RYU application by New Zeeland Research and Education (REANNZ), Waikato University and Victoria University. In this article, I am not going to write about Faucet's architecture and features since you can read about it on its github page or here or here. Instead, I will describe the setup used for a demo presented at the Irish Network Operators Group 11th meetup (iNOG::B).

Over the next few articles, I will write about OpenFlow, Open vSwitch and other SDN related topics. As always, I'm combining the theory part with some hands-on practice and for this, I put this article together describing one way of building such a testing environment.

Welcome to a new series of articles that will be structured as lessons with the target of bringing SDN closer to everyone's understanding. Each article will present a topic plus one or more exercises that will show that topic in action. The lessons will wrap up with some questions asking the readers to exercise on their own and provide the answers.