To extend the range of OpenFlow enabled devices, OpenFlow conquers the OpenWrt based wireless router. You can now get an OpenFlow enabled device for less than a hundred dollars. The current release uses the OpenFlow specification version 0.8.9~2 and sits on-top of the standard OpenWrt distribution. It provides the option of controlling some or all of the interfaces of the wireless router.  To simplify configuration, the distribution includes an easy to use web-based OpenFlow configuration interface based on LuCI.

Screenshot of OpenFlow on OpenWrt

The picture on the top shows the OpenFlow WebUI based on LuCI. With the release of OpenFlow implementations based on the 0.9 specification, you will be able to define multiple datapaths.

The current release was tested on the following platforms: Linksys WRT54GL, Linksys WRTSL54GS, Ubiquity Bullet2, Ubiquity RouterStation, PC Engines alix3d2 and alix2d2.

Click here to see the list of supported platforms and to access the corresponding download links for the firmware. For more information please visit the OpenFlow Wiki and feel free to fill it with OpenFlow related entries. Thanks to Jiang Zhu for the initial implementation of OpenFlow on OpenWrt.

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