NOX Classic

The nox-dev mailing list is still the best way discuss NOX or ask for help, but there is now also a IRC channel where NOX developers and users can hangout for a more real-time type of interaction. Join us on #noxcontroller on “freenode” servers. (For instant web-based access: http://webchat.freenode.net/ )

The Wiki is currently the most up-to-date resource of information about NOX, covering basic concepts, installation, development, FAQ. New users are encouraged to go through it, and older users can use it as a reference. The content will be dynamic and always up-to-date with the latest releases of NOX. Feel free to contribute. NOX Wiki

The last release of NOX (zaku) has come with doxygen-generated documentation, which can be a rich source of information for those trying to figure out what individual components do (e.g., routing).  Judging from recent questions on the list (and to make my friends’ TA job easier), I have decided put up [...]

The NOX team is happy to announce the release of NOX-Zaku (based on the unstable/destiny branch – Sept 15, 2010). This release will replace the current HEAD with the following changes: Support of OpenFlow v1.0 Support of messaging with external ... [More] hosts (messenger) Preliminary support for a console (nox-console) Replacement of XML configuration to JSON (removing Xerces as dependency) OpenFlow packing and [...] [Less]

We’ve pushed the latest Nox codebase (0.6.0) to git on noxrepo.  Currently this version is available from git pending updates to documentation and further examples.  We will provide more formal release notes on 0.6.0 later, but briefly it is a much simpler and robust codebase than 0.5.  We suggest that projects built on Nox plan [...]

NOX 0.5 has been added to the download page and pushed to the noxrepo git repository.  The major changes include removing dojo, restructuring of authenticator, and many bugfixes.  Users of 0.4 can probably upgrade to 0.5 without requiring any major ... [More] restructuring.  You can download the source releases here: nox-0.5.0~core~beta.tar.gz: Minimal release (recommended for new users) [...] [Less]

We’ve pushed a non-trivial update to git which includes a number of bug fixes.  The most significant fixes were in netapps so if you rely on any of those applications, it is a good idea to update.

The binaries posted for running OpenFlow in the virtual test environment were really old (0.8.1) and causing problems.  They’ve since been updated to the latest release (0.8.9). Quicklinks: secchan dpctl openflow_mod.ko

We pushed 0.4.0 to the public nox git repository.  The primary benefit of these changes is that much of the cruft which was never used has been removed.  Also it is now possible to only build the core apps (with greatly reduced compile times). To ... [More] build just the core packages: git clone git://noxrepo.org/noxcore cd noxcore ./boot.sh –apps-core mkdir build && [...] [Less]

I installed Redmine for bug and feature tracking of NOXrepo.  The URL is http://noxrepo.org:8080/redmine/.  It would be very helpful if feature requests and bugtreport where filed with Redmine so we can keep track of them.  Let us know if you have any problems with the registration process.