1. FlowVisor

Flowvisor

FlowVisor

• FlowVisor is a special purpose OpenFlow controller that acts as a transparent proxy between OpenFlow switches and multiple OpenFlow controllers
• FlowVisor creates rich ''slices'' of network resources and delegates control of each slice to a different controller
  • Slices can be defined by any combination of switch ports (layer 1), src/dst ethernet address or type (layer 2), src/dst IP address or type (layer 3), and src/dst TCP/UDP port or ICMP code/type (layer 4).
• FlowVisor enforces isolation between each slice, i.e., one slice cannot control another's traffic

Download

• Get the latest Debian/Ubuntu binary from our repo: 
  • Add deb http://updates.flowvisor.org/openflow/downloads/GENI/DEB unstable/binary-$(ARCH)/ to your /etc/sources.list
  • sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install flowvisor
• Or get the bleeding edge source directly from the mercurial repository:
  • hg clone https://bitbucket.org/onlab/flowvisor

Status

• FlowVisor is currently considered a research project quality and careful testing and consideration should be exercised before deploying in production networks.
• That said, FlowVisor has been deployed in Stanford's production network since May of 2009.

Contact

• Report/Track a bug
• Discuss FlowVisor on the OpenFlow (general) mailing list