Changes between Version 12 and Version 13 of Internal/OpenFlow/Controllers/MultiCtl

Timestamp:

Sep 14, 2012, 11:39:06 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

akoshibe

Comment:

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Internal/OpenFlow/Controllers/MultiCtl

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   2. Tier two connects to all tier one controllers: tier two in this case is a global 'overseer' that can actively coordinate, in this case, a handoff where permitted.         
 
+==== (9/13) ==== 
+A second channel handler was added for inter-controller communication. This involves an addition of:
+ * a slightly modified !ChannelPipelineFactory for the new channel pipeline (the logical stack of handlers that a message received on the channel will be processed by) 
+ * a new ChannelHandler for the socket, `UnitChannelHandler`, to the controller class
+ * a new server-side channel bootstrapping object for this port (6644, "controllerPort") to the controller class
+ 
+[http://www.znetdevelopment.com/blogs/2009/04/21/netty-using-handlers/ This] page was used as a reference.
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