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 | |