METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISCOVERING OPENFLOW PROTOCOL-BASED CONTROL PLANE DEVICE

摘要

Provided are a method and an apparatus for discovering an OpenFlow protocol-based control-plane device. The method includes: receiving identification information from an OpenFlow protocol-based forwarding-plane device, wherein the identification information is identification information of the forwarding-plane device, and the identification information corresponds to information of at least one control-plane device stored in a Management Information Base (MIB); performing matching in the MIB according to the identification information to obtain the information of the at least one control-plane device; and sending the information of the at least one control-plane device to the forwarding-plane device. The technical solution solves the technical problem in related art that a forwarding-plane device cannot discover a control-plane device automatically and effectively, and thus enables the forwarding-plane device to automatically discover the control-plane device and further perform auto-adaptive adjustment for the control-plane device.