This chapter describes the steps involved in sending and processing symmetric messages and asynchronous messages in the switch and contains the following recipes:
- Sending and processing a hello message
- Sending and processing an echo request and a reply message
- Sending and processing an error message
- Sending and processing an experimenter message
- Handling a Set Asynchronous Configuration message from the controller, which shows a list of asynchronous events of interest to the controller
- Handling a Get Asynchronous Configuration message from the controller, which is used to fetch a list of asynchronous events that will be sent from the switch
- Sending a Packet-In message to the controller
- Sending a Flow-removed message to the controller
- Sending a port-status message to the controller
- Sending a controller-role status message to the controller
- Sending a table-status message to the controller
- Sending a request-forward message to the...