Launch Floodlight
It makes no difference whether to launch Floodlight before or after bringing up Pica8 switch. In this document, we start Floodlight after bringing up Pica8 switch.
Figure 10 – Start Floodlight
The following figure shows the connection between Pica8 switch and Floodlight.
Figure 11 – Start Floodlight
We can also use Wireshark to capture the traffic between Pica8 switch and Floodlight as shown below:
Figure 12 – Wireshark Captures
We can also use the following command to show the connection status:
- ovs-vsctl show
Figure 13 – Show OVS Connection Status
We can now use the following command to verify that all of the physical ports are connected:
- ovs-ofctl show br0
Figure 14 – Show Physical Port Status
At this moment, there are no flows defined:
- ovs-ofctl dump-flows br0
Figure 15 – No Flows defined in Pica8 Switch
If we try to ping from PC1 to PC2, it fails:
Figure 16 – Ping Fails
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