oshothebig / galibier

An OpenFlow controller in Java

Galibier

An open source OpenFlow controller in Java

What's Galibier?

Galibier is a Java based open source OpenFlow controller. It is available under the MIT license. The purpose of this project is to provide a flexible and scalable framework for OpenFlow controller and applications running on OpenFlow controllers.

OpenFlow controller

Galibier is still under development. It provides an OpenFlow controller and a benchmark program for evaluating OpenFlow controllers.

How to build

Galibier uses openflowj library, which provides OpenFlow protocol primitives. openflowj have been developed in Stanford University.

1. Download openflowj library

git clone git://openflow.org/openflowj.git

2. Build and install openflowj library into your local Maven repository

cd openflowj
mvn install

3. Build Galibier

cd galibier
mvn package

Act as a repeater hub

java -cp target/galibier-controller-0.1.0-devel-jar-with-dependencies.jar \
org.galibier.example.Hub

Run the benchmark

java -cp target/galibier-controller-0.1.0-devel-jar-with-dependencies.jar \
org.galibier.benchmark.Main localhost

"--help" option is available for printing the help.

Author

• Sho SHIMIZU <[email protected]>