OpenFlow Meeting Notes 7-7-2009

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Agenda:

Reference Implementation, Specification and Test Suite

• Update OpenFlow 0.9 Release
  • RC1 pushed
  • Test reports for RC1 (if any)
  • Is RC1 ready to become the release?
• NOX updates for 0.9
  • Patch expected about a week after release
• Repository management
  • History cleanup status
  • General Git etiquette
• Using only lower 48 bits of Datapathid
  • Issue: Hardware switches use multiple virtual switches with one MAC
  • Controller/tests confused

Vendor Implementation Updates

• HP
• NEC
• Arista
• Juniper
• Cisco
• Toroki
• OpenWRT - Welcome Julius!
• Broadcom

Deployments and Projects

• Stanford deployment update (Masa/Srini)
• Flash Lab Reorg
  • Dave's Guidelines

Last Week's Action Items

• Release plan todo:
  • Test ToS, protocol stats (Mikio, tonight)
  • Update spec ToS bits, flow_mod bits, failover text, rename expirations (Brandon, tonight)
  • Update WS dissector for ToS (Yiannis)
• Failover testing (deferred until Rob comes back)
• Select/Buy OpenWRT hardware, check with Julius (Guido/Julius)
• Find a 0.9 switch for core for failover testing (Masa/KK)

Action Items

• Clarify Stats extension is purely reference implementation, not a spec feature (Mikio)
• Emergency flow cache
  • Missing in spec (Brandon)
  • Document how to view emergency flow cache (DavidE)
  • Specify correct timer behavior in spec (Brandon)
  • Add logic to emergency flow cache to reject entries with timer (Mikio)
• Test suite - find bug that Nicira found on real HW (Tatusya)
• Git 101, talk (Justin)
• Investigate datapath ID for virtual switch instances (Guido/Martin)
• Spec Clarification, top 4 bits of VLAN tag for untagged packet (Dan)
• Look into automated testing (Tatsuya)
• Flash Lab Reorg:
  • move Fouad's machines to basement (Guido) - not done
  • send out Dell 2950's (Brandon)