[Bismark-devel] incorporating openflow

[Nick Feamster]

As Srikanth said, not needed for capetown.

Some possibilities we've been thinking about using it for:

* enforcing per-user or per-device usage caps (in capped settings)
* rate-limiting and QoS functionality
* remote management, troubleshooting, or security services.  See this, for example:
	http://www.gtnoise.net/papers/2010/feamster:homenets2010.pdf

I'd love to get this into the build sometime soon-ish, so I could encourage people to use it in my class this coming fall. :-)

-Nick


On May 4, 2011, at 11:33 AM, Dave Taht wrote:

> 3) What is the need for openflow? I am meeting with the folk at stanford at 2PM PDT and although I get what openflow is for, I'm not sure of the intended use. Is it needed for capetown?
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