Table 3 Controller settings to support hybrid mode (continued)

Controller Configurations Component

Key

Comments

 

 

NOTE: Anytime user

 

 

changes values for either

 

 

age.multihop.links or

 

 

multihop.poll.interval the

 

 

"OpenFlow Link Discovery"

 

 

app needs to be bounced

 

 

so that those newly

 

 

changed values take into

 

 

effect.

 

 

 

com.hp.sdn.disco.of.node.impl.OfDhcpDiscoveryComponent

dhcp.age

Set this value equal to or

 

 

greater than your network’s

 

 

DHCP lease time. Timeout

 

 

(in minutes) for nodes

 

 

learned via DHCP.

 

 

 

com.hp.sdn.disco.of.node.impl.OfArpDiscoveryComponent

arp.age

OpenFlow end-host

 

 

discovery via the ARP

 

 

protocol. Timeout (in

 

 

minutes) for nodes learned

 

 

via ARP.

 

 

 

com.hp.sdn.disco.of.node.impl.OfIpDiscoveryComponent

lp.age

OpenFlow end-host

 

 

discovery via the IP

 

 

protocol. Timeout (in

 

 

minutes) for nodes learned

 

 

via IP.

 

 

 

 

learn.ip

Whether or not the

 

 

controller will discover

 

 

nodes from all IP packets it

 

 

receives.

To view or reconfigure any of the above controller configuration components, click on the component, then click on the Modify button. For more on this topic, see the "Configurations" section in chapter 2 of this guide.

Figure 45 Configuration components to modify for hybrid mode support

76 Hybrid mode for controlling packet-forwarding