| 3 | | There are two main things that need to be configured |
| | 3 | There are two main things that need to be configured : ''create your software switch with the interfaces as ports'' and ''point the switch to an OpenFlow controller''. |
| | 4 | |
| | 5 | In order to configure our switch, we first need to login to the host that will be used as an OpenFlow switch. |
| | 6 | |
| | 7 | == Login to OVS host == |
| | 8 | {{{ |
| | 9 | #!html |
| | 10 | <table border="0"> |
| | 11 | <tr> |
| | 12 | <td> |
| | 13 | <img border="0" src="http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/GENIExperimenter/Tutorials/PortalSimpleLayer2Example/Graphics/createsliver_ig_1.png?format=raw" alt="Login information for a VM" height="300" title="Login information for a VM" /> </a> |
| | 14 | </td> |
| | 15 | <td > |
| | 16 | <ol> |
| | 17 | <li><FONT COLOR="black">Return to the Slice page. Press the <b>Details</b> button in the row of the slice table for <i>GPO InstaGENI</i>.</font></li> |
| | 18 | <li>Open a new terminal window. Copy the command to the right of <b>Login</b> into that terminal window. You have now logged into your VM.</li> |
| | 19 | <li><FONT COLOR="black">Return to the Slice page and repeat the previous two steps for <i>Utah InstaGENI</i> in a second terminal window.</font></li> |
| | 20 | </ol> |
| | 21 | </td> |
| | 22 | </tr> |
| | 23 | </table> |
| | 24 | }}} |
| | 25 | |
| | 26 | == 1. Create the Software Switch == |
| | 27 | |
