There are two main components used with Open Flow. These are:
• Open Flow Switches
• Open Flow Controllers
Table of Contents
Open Flow Switches
Open Flow provide the seperation of Control Plane and Data Plane. Open Flow Switches are used in Data Plane Section.
• Flow Tables
• Secure Channel
• Open Flow Protocol
• Mathing Rule
• Actions to the matched packets
• Counters that keeps the track of matched packets
Mathing rule provide a selection criteria. According to these criterias, packets are selected. Actions are what to do to the selected packets. And counters are the statistic keepers.
Other Open Flow Articles
Open Flow Protocol – Overview
Open Flow Protocol – Components
Open Flow Protocol – Messages
SDN CHEAT SHEETS
SDN
OPENFLOW
NFV
NETCONF
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