Public Videos: OpenFlow Deep Dive
Remember OpenFlow, the One Protocol to Bind Them All1? I haven’t heard anyone even mention it in ages, and I never bothered to ask whether anyone is still using it after the dismal results of the 2022 poll.
Anyway, if you still have to deal with that ancient blunder, six hours of deep dive videos I recorded a decade ago might still be useful. You can watch them without an ipSpace.net account.
Looking for more binge-watching materials? You’ll find them here.
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Years before SRv6 claimed to be that ↩︎
I wonder how many folks are using it without realising? OVS is used in many places, and OF support in it looks like is alive and well: https://docs.openvswitch.org/en/stable/faq/openflow/
I was thinking about using OVS in netlab instead of the Linux bridge as well because it makes for a better patch panel (and we support it for containerlab deployments), but would I use it as an OpenFlow switch? Absolutely not; there's no need for that.
Would I use OpenFlow to make OVS a programmable patch panel? Maybe, but remember that ancient OpenStack OVS plugin? IIRC, it programmed the OVS flows via CLI commands.