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Mastering Python Networking

You're reading from   Mastering Python Networking Your one stop solution to using Python for network automation, DevOps, and SDN

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784397005
Length 446 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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1. Review of TCP/IP Protocol Suite and Python Language FREE CHAPTER 2. Low-Level Network Device Interactions 3. API and Intent-Driven Networking 4. The Python Automation Framework - Ansible Basics 5. The Python Automation Framework - Ansible Advance Topics 6. Network Security with Python 7. Network Monitoring with Python - Part 1 8. Network Monitoring with Python - Part 2 9. Building Network Web Services with Python 10. OpenFlow Basics 11. Advanced OpenFlow Topics 12. OpenStack, OpenDaylight, and NFV 13. Hybrid SDN

Controller redundancy


In the centralized controlled environment, such as OpenFlow, we need to be prepared for fault tolerance on the controller. This is generally the first thing we need to consider in our deployment. In production network, we need to plan for controller failure or any communication failure between controller and the switch. Prior to OpenFlow 1.3, the orchestration of controllers needed to be done via a third party software or between controllers themselves for negotiating the primary controller. Starting in OpenFlow 1.3, this can be done via the OFPT_ROLE messages between the controller and the switch. In OpenFlow 1.3, the switch can connect to multiple controllers and the controller's role can be equal, master, or slave. In equal role, it is just as if the switch has two masters, each having full access to the switch. In a slave role, the controller has only read access to the switch, does not receive asynchronous messages, and is denied any flow-mod, packet-out, or other...

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