OpenFlow configuration task list

(Required.) Configure an OpenFlow instance:

1. (Required.) Creating an OpenFlow instance

2. (Required.) Configuring an OpenFlow instance:

   • (Required.) Configuring the OpenFlow instance scope

   • (Optional.) Creating flow tables for an OpenFlow instance

   • (Optional.) Setting the controller mode

   • (Optional.) Configuring the maximum number of flow entries

   • (Optional.) Configuring inband management VLANs

   • (Optional.) Configuring OpenFlow to forbid MAC address learning

   • (Optional.) Forbidding an OpenFlow instance to report the specified types of ports to controllers

   • (Optional.) Configuring the default action of table-miss flow entries

   • (Optional.) Configuring the datapath ID

3. (Required.) Activating or reactivating an OpenFlow instance

(Required.) Configure controllers for an OpenFlow switch:

• (Required.) Configuring controllers and main connections

• (Optional.) Setting the connection interruption mode

(Optional.) Setting OpenFlow timers

(Optional.) Configuring OpenFlow to support dynamic MAC addresses

(Optional.) Enabling packet loss prevention for OpenFlow forwarding

(Optional.) Creating a highest-priority flow entry for dropping slow protocol packets

(Optional.) Enabling an OpenFlow instance to perform QinQ tagging for double-tagged packets passing an extensibility flow table