Tuning Server Sockets

Floodlight v1.2 and below expose net.floodlightcontroller.core.internal.Controller.openflowPort and net.floodlightcontroller.core.internal.Controller.openflowHost to modify the OpenFlow TCP port and IP address. Set these instead of via the OFSwitchManager as indicated below, which is for Floodlight master June 2016 and later.

Floodlight provides many parameters and tuning knobs for the included server sockets, such as the OpenFlow server, the REST API, and the Jython debug server. You can modify the following configuration parameters in your properties file.

net.floodlightcontroller.restserver.RestApiServer.host
net.floodlightcontroller.restserver.RestApiServer.httpPort
net.floodlightcontroller.restserver.RestApiServer.httpsPort
net.floodlightcontroller.core.internal.OFSwitchManager.openFlowPort
net.floodlightcontroller.core.internal.OFSwitchManager.openFlowAddresses
net.floodlightcontroller.core.internal.OFSwitchManager.workerThreads
net.floodlightcontroller.core.internal.OFSwitchManager.bossThreads
net.floodlightcontroller.core.internal.OFSwitchManager.connectionBacklog
net.floodlightcontroller.core.internal.OFSwitchManager.connectionTimeoutMs
net.floodlightcontroller.jython.JythonDebugInterface.host
net.floodlightcontroller.jython.JythonDebugInterface.port

Example Configurations

OpenFlow port where switches connect to Floodlight changed from 6653 to 6633:

net.floodlightcontroller.core.internal.OFSwitchManager.openFlowPort=6633

All 3 servers listen on different hosts:

net.floodlightcontroller.restserver.RestApiServer.host=192.168.1.1
net.floodlightcontroller.core.internal.OFSwitchManager.openFlowAddresses=192.168.1.2
net.floodlightcontroller.jython.JythonDebugInterface.host=192.168.1.3

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