ROFL-HAL library

Documentation

Introduction

The ROFL-hal library is a Hardware Abstraction Library for OpenFlow 1.0, 1.2 and 1.3.X dataplanes. ROFL-hal is used by the eXtensible DataPath (xDPd).

ROFL-hal uses extensibly ROFL-pipeline as a data-model for the dataplane.

Architecture overview

               CMM
 (platform or device agnostic code)

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  Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)

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              Driver
 (platform or device specific code)

Related projects:

• ROFL-common: Revised OpenFlow Library OpenFlow endpoint code.
• ROFL-pipeline: Revised OpenFlow Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL).
• xDPd: eXtensible DataPath daemon, a multi-platform open-source OpenFlow datapath.

Authors:

• Marc Sune Clos <marc.sune (at) bisdn.de>
• Victor Alvarez Roig <victor.alvarez (at) bisdn.de>
• Andreas Koepsel <andreas.koepsel (at) bisdn.de>

Copyright BISDN.

Licensing:

The code is distributed under MPL v2: http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/

The ROFL-hal library is part of a more extensive C/C++ library called ROFL (Revised OpenFlow Library).