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Reconnection interval

—Interval for the OpenFlow switch to wait before it attempts to reconnect to a 

controller. 

To set OpenFlow timers for an OpenFlow switch: 

 

Step Command 

Remarks 

1.

 

Enter system view. 

system-view 

N/A 

2.

 

Enter OpenFlow instance 

view. 

openflow instance

 

instance-id

 N/A 

3.

 

Set the connection detection 
interval. 

controller

 

echo-request interval

 

interval-value

 

By default, the connection 
detection interval is 5 seconds.  
To reduce the CPU load, H3C 
recommends that you set the 

connection detection interval to a 

large value. 

4.

 

Set the reconnection interval. 

controller connect interval

 

interval-value

 

By default, the reconnection 
interval is 60 seconds. 

 

Configuring an OpenFlow instance to support 
dynamic MAC addresses 

You can configure an OpenFlow instance to support querying and deleting of dynamic MAC addresses 

in MAC-IP flow tables. 
To configure an OpenFlow instance to support dynamic MAC addresses: 

 

Step Command 

Remarks 

1.

 

Enter system view. 

system-view 

N/A 

2.

 

Enter OpenFlow instance 

view. 

openflow instance

 

instance-id

 N/A 

3.

 

Configure the OpenFlow 
instance to support dynamic 

MAC addresses. 

mac-ip dynamic-mac aware

 

By default, an OpenFlow instance 
prohibits controllers from querying 

and deleting dynamic MAC 
addresses. 

 

Displaying and maintaining OpenFlow 

Execute 

display

 commands in any view. 

 

Task Command 

Display the detailed information for an OpenFlow 
instance. 

display openflow instance 

instance-id 

]

 

Display flow table entries for an OpenFlow instance. 

display openflow

 

instance

 

instance-id

 

flow-table

 

table-id

 ] 

Summary of Contents for S6300 Series

Page 1: ...H3C S6300 Switch Series OpenFlow Configuration Guide Hangzhou H3C Technologies Co Ltd http www h3c com Software version Release 23xx Document version 6W101 20150407...

Page 2: ...gine SecPath SecCenter SecBlade Comware ITCMM and HUASAN are trademarks of Hangzhou H3C Technologies Co Ltd All other trademarks that may be mentioned in this manual are the property of their respecti...

Page 3: ...lanners Field technical support and servicing engineers Network administrators working with the S6300 series Conventions This section describes the conventions used in this documentation set Command c...

Page 4: ...in personal injury CAUTION An alert that calls attention to important information that if not understood or followed can result in data loss data corruption or damage to hardware or software IMPORTANT...

Page 5: ...s Fan assemblies installation manual Describes the appearance specifications and installation and removal of hot swappable fan assemblies Power modules user manual Describes the appearance specificati...

Page 6: ...hardware installation software upgrading and software feature configuration and maintenance documentation Products Solutions Provides information about products and technologies as well as solutions T...

Page 7: ...uring inband management VLANs 8 Disabling MAC address learning in the VLANs associated with an OpenFlow instance 9 Configuring the datapath ID for an OpenFlow instance 9 Activating or reactivating an...

Page 8: ...r physical and virtual devices Overview OpenFlow separates the data forwarding and routing decision functions It keeps the flow based forwarding function and employs a separate controller to make rout...

Page 9: ...w table contains flow entries and packets are matched based on the matching precedence of flow entries OpenFlow flow tables include the following types MAC IP Combines the MAC address table and FIB ta...

Page 10: ...ot it has matched packets Cookie Flow entry identifier specified by the controller Table miss flow entry Every flow table must support a table miss flow entry to process table misses The table miss fl...

Page 11: ...rs enable OpenFlow to implement various simple QoS operations such as rate limiting A group table contains meter entries Figure 5 Components of a meter entry A meter entry contains the following field...

Page 12: ...rts the following information to the controller Support capabilities for OpenFlow Ports that belongs to the OpenFlow instance An activated OpenFlow instance need be reactivated when any of the OpenFlo...

Page 13: ...ional Setting OpenFlow timers Optional Configuring an OpenFlow instance to support dynamic MAC addresses Configuring OpenFlow instances To use LLDP together with OpenFlow you must enable LLDP globally...

Page 14: ...w instance contains one extensibility flow table with an ID of 0 An OpenFlow instance supports only one MAC IP flow table and one extensibility flow table If you execute the command multiple times the...

Page 15: ...bility flow table supports a maximum of 65535 flow entries Configuring inband management VLANs Inband management VLANs of an OpenFlow instance are part of the VLANs associated with the OpenFlow instan...

Page 16: ...instance Step Command Remarks 1 Enter system view system view N A 2 Enter OpenFlow instance view openflow instance instance id N A 3 Configure the datapath ID for the OpenFlow instance datapath id dat...

Page 17: ...any main connection Setting the connection interruption mode An OpenFlow switch is set to either of the following modes when it is disconnected from all controllers Secure In this mode the OpenFlow s...

Page 18: ...nfiguring an OpenFlow instance to support dynamic MAC addresses You can configure an OpenFlow instance to support querying and deleting of dynamic MAC addresses in MAC IP flow tables To configure an O...

Page 19: ...penFlow communication with the controller in specific VLANs Create OpenFlow instance 1 associate VLANs 4092 and 4094 with the OpenFlow instance and activate the OpenFlow instance Configure the control...

Page 20: ...ption Active status active Inactive configuration none Active configuration Classification VLAN total VLANs 2 4092 4094 In band management VLAN total VLANs 0 empty VLAN Connect mode multiple Mac addre...

Page 21: ...ow configuration 1 12 OpenFlow instance configuration 6 OpenFlow timer setting 10 datapath ID configuration OpenFlow 9 disabling MAC address learning in associated VLANs OpenFlow 9 displaying OpenFlow...

Page 22: ...e 9 configuring flow table ID OpenFlow 7 configuring inband management VLAN OpenFlow 8 configuring OpenFlow instance 6 creating OpenFlow instance 6 disabling MAC address learning in associated VLANs O...

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