org.onosproject.incubator.net.virtual.provider

Interface VirtualPacketProvider

All Superinterfaces:

VirtualProvider

public interface VirtualPacketProvider
extends VirtualProvider

Abstraction of a virtual packet provider capable of emitting packets from virtual network core services to the underlay network. This provider de-virtualzes OutboundPacket, and virtualizes PacketContext.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	emit(NetworkId networkId, org.onosproject.net.packet.OutboundPacket packet) Emits the specified outbound packet onto the underlay physical network.
void	startPacketHandling() Starts to deliver packets to virtual packet managers.

Methods inherited from interface org.onosproject.incubator.net.virtual.provider.VirtualProvider

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Method Detail

emit

void emit(NetworkId networkId,
          org.onosproject.net.packet.OutboundPacket packet)

Emits the specified outbound packet onto the underlay physical network. This provider maps the requested packets for physical network.

Parameters:

networkId - the virtual network ID

packet - outbound packet in the context of virtual network

startPacketHandling

void startPacketHandling()

Starts to deliver packets to virtual packet managers.