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Network Config Host Provider is a host provider that learns host information from network config subsystem rather than packet-in.
There are two main benefit that Network Config Host Provider can offer:
Network config subsystem already provides Java API and REST API. Which makes Network Config Host Provider very easy to use.
The openflow meta application contains openflow-base, hostprovider and lldpprovider.
You can set the following into ONOS_APPS environment variable to replace hostprovider with netcfghostprovider.
export ONOS_APPS=drivers,openflow-base,netcfghostprovider,lldpprovider |
Network Config Host Provider is an application, which means it can also be enable/disable dynamically through ONOS CLI
app deactivate org.onosproject.openflow app activate org.onosproject.openflow-base org.onosproject.netcfghostprovider org.onosproject.lldpprovider |