Updated UB 11.10 post here It is all pretty straight forward except for the default branch is zaku(stable) which has compilation issues. This switches the branch to destiny(unstable). $wget http://openflowswitch.org/downloads/debian/binary/nox-dependencies.deb $dpkg –info nox-dependencies.deb $cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d $sudo wget http://openflowswitch.org/downloads/debian/nox.list $sudo apt-get update $sudo apt-get install nox-dependencies $git clone git://noxrepo.org/nox $cd nox Make sure you run the… Continue reading Installing NOX OpenFlow Controller on Ubuntu 11.10
Tag: Software Defined Networking
Installing Openvswitch and KVM on CentOS 6.2
[fancy_header3] Installing Openvswitch and KVM on CentOS 6.2 [/fancy_header3] [info_box]Please see the updated how-to on Installing OpenvSwitch on CentOS.[/info_box] This is all (mostly) covered in the INSTALL.Linux inside the tar. This might help folks with some of the graph [fancy_header3] Download and Install Open vSwitch[/fancy_header3]
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$ wget http://openvswitch.org/releases/openvswitch-1.3.0.tar.gz wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/source/SRPMS/autoconf-2.68-2.fc15.src.rpm $rpm -ivh webdot-2.26-1.el6.noarch.rpm $yum -y install graphviz-tcl $yum -y install python-zope-filesystem $yum -y install python-zope-interface $yum -y install automake $yum -y install autoconf |
add yum -y install openssl-devel this package is necessary… Continue reading Installing Openvswitch and KVM on CentOS 6.2
Top 10 Reasons I think SDN Openflow will gain momentum
[fancy_header3 variation=”slategrey”] Top 10 Reasons I think SDN Openflow will gain momentum [/fancy_header3] [fancy_numbers variation=”slategrey”] Ridiculously high profit margins in the networking hardware market. Content deliverers needing the flexibility that SDN’s claim to deliver in their data centers. To do anything they want with their network traffic, as opposed to trying to orchestrate the ever… Continue reading Top 10 Reasons I think SDN Openflow will gain momentum
The MPLS and transport roles merge
The Juniper PTX in 2011 was a pretty bold merge of the OTN and MPLS functionality into one box. They are marketing it as the “Converged Supercore” http://www.juniper.net/as/en/dm/supercore/. As the debate of packet vs. circuit switched networks has clearly been won by the packet side of the house. Arguably the the increasing demands of service… Continue reading The MPLS and transport roles merge
Death to the Firewall
[fancy_header3 variation=”slategrey”]Death to the Firewall[/fancy_header3] The Firewall will die soon. Blackbox hardware just doesn’t make sense anymore. CPU is king when it comes to processing payload and that is commodity. SDN will put a nail in the custom hardware closed system soon enough. Until then, some musings on a project to collapse some functions into… Continue reading Death to the Firewall