摘要 |
Fine traffic monitoring is achieved in a network in which sFlow and OpenFlow are combined. Specifically, flow identifiers (flow IDs) for identifying flows (or groups of packets) are prepared, and the flow identifiers are stored in entries of flow tables to allow sFlow agents to specify the flow identifiers as data sources. Specifically, the flow identifiers are stored in cookies of entries registered in flow tables of switches from a controller, and operations are performed for received packets matching the rules of the entries in accordance with the actions defined in the entries. In the switches, the flow identifiers specified as data sources in the MIBs used in sFlow are obtained and statistic information of packets matching the entries is obtained on the basis of the flow identifiers.
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