Software Defined Networking with OpenFlow -- Table of Contents -- Software Defined Networking with OpenFlow -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Introducing OpenFlow -- Understanding Software Defined Networking - OpenFlow flavor -- Activities around SDN/OpenFlow -- Building Blocks -- OpenFlow messages -- Controller-to-switch -- Features -- Configuration -- Modify-State -- Read-State -- Send-Packet -- Barrier -- Symmetric messages -- Hello -- Echo -- Vendor -- Asynchronous messages -- Packet-in -- Flow-Removal -- Port-status -- Error -- Northbound interface -- Summary -- 2. Implementing the OpenFlow Switch -- OpenFlow reference switch -- Asynchronous messages -- Symmetric Messages -- Hardware Implementations -- Software-based switches -- OpenFlow laboratory with Mininet -- Getting started with Mininet -- Experimenting with Mininet -- Summary -- 3. The OpenFlow Controllers -- SDN controllers -- Existing implementations -- NOX and POX -- Running a POX application -- NodeFlow -- Floodlight -- OpenDaylight -- Special controllers -- Summary -- 4. Setting Up the Environment -- Understanding the OpenFlow laboratory -- External controllers -- Completing the OpenFlow laboratory -- OpenDaylight -- ODL controller -- ODL-based SDN laboratory -- Summary -- 5. "Net App" Development -- Net App 1 - an Ethernet learning switch -- Building the learning switch -- Net App 2 - A simple firewall -- Net App 3 - simple forwarding in OpenDaylight -- Summary -- 6. Getting a Network Slice -- Network virtualization.

FlowVisor -- FlowVisor API -- FLOW_MATCH structure -- Slice actions structure -- FlowVisor slicing -- Summary -- 7. OpenFlow in Cloud Computing -- OpenStack and Neutron -- OpenStack Networking Architecture -- Neutron plugins -- Summary -- 8. Open Source Resources -- Switches -- Open vSwitch -- Pantou -- Indigo -- LINC -- XORPlus -- OF13SoftSwitch -- Controllers -- Beacon -- Floodlight -- Maestro -- Trema -- FlowER -- Ryu -- Miscellaneous -- FlowVisor -- Avior -- RouteFlow -- OFlops and Cbench -- OSCARS -- Twister -- FortNOX -- Nettle -- Frenetic -- OESS -- Summary -- Index.