[158910] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OpenFlow, please don't start a flame war...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Kell)
Fri Dec 14 23:45:10 2012
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 23:44:48 -0500
From: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>
To: <eric-list@truenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <5e62eb07$4f5b9433$5635a55b$@truenet.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 12/14/2012 11:11 PM, eric-list@truenet.com wrote:
> It's been about 2 years in since I've heard about the concept, and honestly
> I'm about ready to jump into test environments at my house. My questions
> are pretty basic, what distro would you recommend for a controller, and
> should I start by virtualizing in VMWare or HyperV or jump into some cheap
> Linksys WRT routers. The more I hear about the tech from colleges, Google,
> BigSwitch, etc is leaning me to really start learning, so any help would
> appreciated.
Yeah, it's the neatest thing since sliced bread, but requires layer-2
connectivity across the board. When you exhaust your mac address
tables, we'll welcome you back to the real world.
Jeff
