METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISCOVERING OPENFLOW PROTOCOL-BASED CONTROL PLANE DEVICE

摘要

The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for discovering an OpenFlow protocol-based control plane device. The method comprises: receiving identification information from an OpenFlow protocol-based forwarding plane device, the identification information being the identification information about the forwarding plane device and the identification information being corresponding to information about a control plane device in a management information base; and performing matching in the management information base according to the identification information to obtai information about the control plane device; and sending the information about the control plane device to the forwarding plane device. By means of the technical solutions provided in the present invention, the technical problem in the related art is solved that a forwarding plane device cannot discover a control plane device automatically and effectively, so that the forwarding plane device automatically discovers the control plane device and further, can perform self-adaptive adjustment on the control plane device.