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Re: OpenFlow, please don't start a flame war...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kinsella)
Sat Dec 15 10:21:15 2012

From: John Kinsella <jlk@thrashyour.com>
In-Reply-To: <5e62eb07$4f5b9433$5635a55b$@truenet.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 07:20:57 -0800
To: "eric-list@truenet.com" <eric-list@truenet.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

I'm biased, but I'd say give cloudstack a try. Supports openflow, and
fairly easy to spin up.
http://www.slideshare.net/xen_com_mgr/under-the-hood-open-vswitch-openflow-in-xcp-xenserver

John

On Dec 14, 2012, at 8:13 PM, "eric-list@truenet.com"
<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.
>
>
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