-Userspace Switch-Based Setup
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-
-To set up an OpenFlow switch using the userspace switch, follow this
-procedure. The userspace switch must be connected to the controller
-over a "control network" that is physically separate from the one that
-the switch and controller are controlling. (The kernel-based and
-userspace datapath-based switches do not have this limitation.)
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-0. The commands below must run as root, so log in as root, or use a
- program such as "su" to become root temporarily.
-
-1. Use the "switch" program to start an OpenFlow switch, specifying
- the IP address of the controller as the first argument to the
- switch program, and the network devices to include in the switch as
- arguments to the -i option. For example, if the controller is
- running on host 192.168.1.2 port 975 (the default port), and eth1
- and eth2 are to be the switch ports, the switch invocation would
- look like this:
-
- # switch tcp:127.0.0.1 -i eth1,eth2
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- The network devices that you specify should not have configured IP
- addresses.
-
-2. The controller causes each switch that connects to it to act like a
- learning Ethernet switch. Thus, devices plugged into the specified
- network ports should now be able to send packets to each other, as
- if they were plugged into ports on a conventional Ethernet switch.
-