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Preface 

The H3C S6300 documentation set includes 14 configuration guides, which describe the software 

features for the H3C S6300 Switch Series and guide you through the software configuration procedures. 

These configuration guides also provide configuration examples to help you apply software features to 
different network scenarios.  
The 

OpenFlow Configuration Guide

 describes the background, fundamentals, and configuration of 

OpenFlow.

 

This preface includes:  

 

Audience 

 

Conventions 

 

About the H3C S6300 documentation set 

 

Obtaining documentation 

 

Technical support 

 

Documentation feedback 

Audience 

This documentation is intended for: 

 

Network planners 

 

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 conventions 

Convention Description 

Boldface

 

Bold

 text represents commands and keywords that you enter literally as shown. 

Italic

 

Italic

 text represents arguments that you replace with actual values. 

[ ] 

Square brackets enclose syntax choices (keywords or arguments) that are optional. 

{ x | y | ... }

 

Braces enclose a set of required syntax choices separated by vertical bars, from which 
you select one.  

[ x | y | ... ]

 

Square brackets enclose a set of optional syntax choices separated by vertical bars, from 
which you select one or none.  

{ x | y | ... } *

 

Asterisk marked braces enclose a set of required syntax choices separated by vertical 
bars, from which you select at least one. 

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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