Trellis Leaf-Spine Fabric

Introduction

This folder contains Mininet scripts and corresponding config files that can be used to emulate Trellis leaf-spine fabric, vRouter and DHCP relay. Current Mininet setup only works with ONOS 1.11 and above. We recommend you use the tip of 1.11 branch.

Download

git clone https://gerrit.onosproject.org/routing

Manual Installation

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Some dependencies need to be installed for a fresh Ubuntu.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y gawk texinfo python-pip build-essential iptables automake autoconf libtool
sudo pip install -U pip
sudo pip install ipaddress

Mininet

sudo apt-get install mininet

OpenvSwitch

Mininet should install OVS for you. Please run sudo ovs-vsctl --version and make sure the OVS version is above 2.5.0+.

DHCP server

sudo apt-get install isc-dhcp-server

Quagga

Trellis needs a special FPM patch for Quagga.

In order to start the quagga related daemons, you should create a user quagga and set the correct read/write permission to local state directory(--localstatedir) and configuration directory(--sysconfdir).

git clone -b onos-1.11 https://gerrit.opencord.org/quagga
cd quagga
./bootstrap.sh
./configure --enable-fpm --sbindir=/usr/lib/quagga
make
sudo make install
cd ..

ONOS - Installation

Learn about how to setup ONOS at: https://wiki.onosproject.org/. After installation, the following ONOS apps need to be activated.

export ONOS_APPS=drivers,openflow,segmentrouting,fpm,dhcprelay,netcfghostprovider,routeradvertisement

ONOS - Network Config

onos-netcfg <onos-ip> routing/trellis/trellis.json

Update Controller IP

The location of ONOS controller needs to be updated in several places, including Mininet script and zebra config.

In routing/trellis/trellis.py

net.addController(RemoteController('c0', ip='192.168.56.11'))
net.addController(RemoteController('c1', ip='192.168.56.12'))
net.addController(RemoteController('c2', ip='192.168.56.13'))

In routing/trellis/zebradbgp1.conf Note: This ONOS IP need to be reachable from Mininet emulated Quagga host. 127.0.0.1 is invalid.

fpm connection ip 192.168.56.11 port 2620

Disable/Modify AppArmor

The apparmor will set dhcpd in enforce mode. We will need to disable the profile.

sudo ln -s /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.dhcpd /etc/apparmor.d/disable/
sudo apparmor_parser -R /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.dhcpd

The apparmor rules of dhclient will restrict the dhclient to write files to directory /var/lib/. We need to modify the rules of dhclient profile and restart the apparmor.

sudo /etc/init.d/apparmor stop
sudo sed -i '30i  /var/lib/dhcp{,3}/dhcpclient* lrw,' /etc/apparmor.d/sbin.dhclient
sudo /etc/init.d/apparmor start

Start Mininet Emulation

cd routing/trellis
sudo ./trellis.py

Verify Network Connectivity

In Mininet, run

• h1 ping 10.0.99.2 to check IPv4 connectivity
• h1v6 ping6 2000::9902 to check IPv6 connectivity

Vagrant

We also provide a mininet VM image supported by Vagrant file. In that VM environment, you only need to modify the IP address of ONON controller for trellis.py and zebradbgp*.conf.

In order to use the Vagrant, make sure you have already installed the Vagrant in your environment.

Start the VM

vagrant up

Start the ONOS

Start the ONON controller and set the config via onos-netcfg on the other host.

Operate the VM

Type the following command to ssh into the VM environment.

vagrant ssh

Now. Follow above instructions to modify the IP address of trellis.py and `zebradbgp*.conf. and then start the mininet to test

cd routing/trellis
vim trellis.py
vim zebradbgp1.conf
sudo ./trellis.py

Troubleshooting

• Services in the emulated hosts may still be alive if Mininet is not terminated properly. In that case, simply run the following command to clean up.

sudo killall -9 dhclient dhcpd zebra bgpd
sudo mn -c