Patent ID: 9641421
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A message transmitting method, comprising: receiving a first message sent from a first OpenFlow switch by an OpenFlow controller; and transmitting a first response message to the first OpenFlow switch by the OpenFlow controller when the OpenFlow controller determines according to the first message that the first OpenFlow switch is under the management of the OpenFlow controller, wherein the first response message comprises type information of a first connection and parameters related to the OpenFlow controller among parameters of the first connection, the first connection is a connection to be established between the first OpenFlow switch and the OpenFlow controller, the first response message corresponds to the first message, that the first OpenFlow switch is under the management of the OpenFlow controller is determined by the OpenFlow controller when an ID of the first OpenFlow switch in a database is detected by the OpenFlow controller, the database comprises IDs of OpenFlow switches managed by the OpenFlow controller, and the first message comprises the ID of the first OpenFlow switch.