Thoughts on Openflow at Home?

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gerby

SREious Engineer
Apr 3, 2021
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I've recently acquired an ICX7250 for the home lab and have long been intrigued by openflow; while writing ACLs this week I was struck by the duplication and have started looking at faucet.nz. I'd like to centralize and simplify switch configs and the YAML appeals to me; in addition to the 7250 I've got a proxmox box with openvswitch and a sg300 acting as an access switch for my entertainment center. I recognize the SG300 as a lost cause but it's flat access at this point and due for replacement with something that will feed POE to a second AP.

Has anyone here used faucet? What "gotchas" have you encountered? What hit (if any) do you experience on config changes? How does the ICX series handle controller failures; will change or outages of the controller raise pitchforks from other household members?
 

gerby

SREious Engineer
Apr 3, 2021
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Following up here I've not implemented anything yet but research has brought this thread to my attention; hopefully it's helpful to others as well.