摘要 |
<p>A control apparatus controlling a network switch over a software defined network includes: a network interface hardware module receiving an Ethernet packet including a flow rule request message from the network switch; a reception queue hardware module; hardware acceleration module extracting flow rule request data from the Ethernet packet by using hardware to store extracted data in the reception queue hardware module; a central processing unit (CPU); and a storage hardware module driven by the CPU and including one or more software modules creating response data to the flow rule request data by using software.</p> |