This plugin is a temporary! copy of VPP's src/plugins/linux-cp/ plugin, originally by the following authors:
- Signed-off-by: Neale Ranns [email protected]
- Signed-off-by: Matthew Smith [email protected]
- Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger [email protected]
- Signed-off-by: Pim van Pelt [email protected]
- Signed-off-by: Neale Ranns [email protected]
See previous work:
My work is intended to be re-submitted for review as a cleanup/rewrite of the existing Linux CP interface mirror and netlink syncer.
Follow along on my blog for my findings while I work towards a completed plugin that can copy VPP configuration into Linux interfaces, and copy Linux configuration changes into VPP (ie. a fully bidirectional pipe between Linux and VPP).
When the code is complete, this plugin should be able to work seemlessly with a higher level controlplane like FRR or Bird, for example as a BGP/OSPF speaking ISP router.
The only reason that this code is here, is so that I can make some progress iterating on the Linux CP plugin, and share my findings with some interested folks. The goal is NOT to use this plugin anywhere other than a bench. I intend to contribute the plugin back upstream as soon as it's peer reviewed!
Pull Requests and Issues will be immediately closed without warning
VPP's code lives at fd.io, and this copy is shared only for convenience purposes.
The following functionality is supported by the plugin. The VPP->Linux column shows changes in VPP that are copied into the Linux environment; Linux->VPP column shows changes in LInux that are copied into VPP.
| Function | VPP -> Linux | Linux -> VPP |
|---|---|---|
| Up/Down Link | ✅ | ✅ |
| Change MTU | ✅ | ✅ |
| Change MAC | ❌ 1) | ✅ |
| Add/Del IP4/IP6 Address | ✅ | ✅ |
| Route | ❌ 2) | ✅ |
| Add/Del Tunnel | ❌ | ❌ |
| Add/Del Phy | ✅ | 🟠 |
| Add/Del .1q | ✅ | ✅ |
| Add/Del .1ad | ✅ | ✅ |
| Add/Del QinQ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Add/Del QinAD | ✅ | ✅ |
| Add/Del BondEthernet | ✅ | 🟠 |
Legend: ✅=supported; 🟠=maybe; ❌=infeasible.
- There is no callback or macro to register an interest in MAC address changes in VPP.
- There is no callback or macro to register an interest in FIB changes in VPP.
First, ensure that you can build and run 'vanilla' VPP by using the instructions. Then check out this plugin out-of-tree and symlink it in.
mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src
git clone https://github.com/pimvanpelt/lcpng.git
ln -s ~/src/lcpng ~/src/vpp/src/plugins/lcpng
Ensure this plugin is enabled and the original linux-cp plugin is disabled,
that logging goes to stderr (in the debug variant of VPP), and that the features
are dis/enabled, by providing the following startup.conf:
plugins {
path ~/src/vpp/build-root/install-vpp_debug-native/vpp/lib/vpp_plugins
plugin lcpng_if_plugin.so { enable }
plugin lcpng_nl_plugin.so { enable }
plugin linux_cp_plugin.so { disable }
}
logging {
default-log-level info
default-syslog-log-level crit
## Set per-class configuration
class linux-cp/if { rate-limit 10000 level debug syslog-level debug }
class linux-cp/nl { rate-limit 10000 level debug syslog-level debug }
}
lcpng {
default netns dataplane
lcp-sync
lcp-auto-subint
}
Then, simply make build and make run VPP which will load the plugin.
im@hippo:~/src/vpp$ make run
snort [debug ]: initialized
snort [debug ]: snort listener /run/vpp/snort.sock
linux-cp/if [debug ]: interface_add: [1] sw TenGigabitEthernet3/0/0 is_sub 0 lcp-auto-subint 1
linux-cp/if [debug ]: mtu_change: sw TenGigabitEthernet3/0/0 0
linux-cp/if [debug ]: interface_add: [2] sw TenGigabitEthernet3/0/1 is_sub 0 lcp-auto-subint 1
linux-cp/if [debug ]: mtu_change: sw TenGigabitEthernet3/0/1 0
linux-cp/if [debug ]: interface_add: [3] sw TenGigabitEthernet3/0/2 is_sub 0 lcp-auto-subint 1
linux-cp/if [debug ]: mtu_change: sw TenGigabitEthernet3/0/2 0
linux-cp/if [debug ]: interface_add: [4] sw TenGigabitEthernet3/0/3 is_sub 0 lcp-auto-subint 1
linux-cp/if [debug ]: mtu_change: sw TenGigabitEthernet3/0/3 0
linux-cp/if [debug ]: interface_add: [5] sw TwentyFiveGigabitEthernete/0/0 is_sub 0 lcp-auto-subint 1
linux-cp/if [debug ]: mtu_change: sw TwentyFiveGigabitEthernete/0/0 0
linux-cp/if [debug ]: interface_add: [6] sw TwentyFiveGigabitEthernete/0/1 is_sub 0 lcp-auto-subint 1
linux-cp/if [debug ]: mtu_change: sw TwentyFiveGigabitEthernete/0/1 0
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DBGvpp#
Interesting packetloss and latency increase seen on the BondEthernet0 interfaces (10.1.*.2)
versus TenGigabitEthernet (10.0.*.2) interfaces:
10.1.1.2 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 30000/29833/0%, min/avg/max = 0.11/0.50/10.6
10.1.2.2 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 30000/29856/0%, min/avg/max = 0.10/0.50/10.8
10.1.3.2 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 30000/29851/0%, min/avg/max = 0.10/0.51/10.7
10.1.4.2 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 30000/29848/0%, min/avg/max = 0.12/0.51/10.8
10.1.5.2 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 30000/29841/0%, min/avg/max = 0.11/0.51/11.7
10.0.1.2 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 30000/30000/0%, min/avg/max = 0.09/0.21/40.4
10.0.2.2 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 30000/30000/0%, min/avg/max = 0.10/0.21/30.4
10.0.3.2 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 30000/30000/0%, min/avg/max = 0.10/0.19/20.4
10.0.4.2 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 30000/30000/0%, min/avg/max = 0.10/0.18/10.3
10.0.5.2 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 30000/30000/0%, min/avg/max = 0.10/0.19/8.50
2001:db8:1:1::2 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 30000/29853/0%, min/avg/max = 0.12/0.52/10.7
2001:db8:1:2::2 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 30000/29870/0%, min/avg/max = 0.08/0.56/10.9
2001:db8:1:3::2 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 30000/29857/0%, min/avg/max = 0.11/0.52/11.1
2001:db8:1:4::2 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 30000/29866/0%, min/avg/max = 0.11/0.56/10.9
2001:db8:1:5::2 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 30000/29864/0%, min/avg/max = 0.10/0.57/11.1
2001:db8:0:1::2 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 30000/30000/0%, min/avg/max = 0.10/0.23/8.33
2001:db8:0:2::2 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 30000/30000/0%, min/avg/max = 0.10/0.21/8.27
2001:db8:0:3::2 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 30000/30000/0%, min/avg/max = 0.10/0.20/8.20
2001:db8:0:4::2 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 30000/29999/0%, min/avg/max = 0.11/0.19/8.49
2001:db8:0:5::2 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 30000/29999/0%, min/avg/max = 0.10/0.19/8.46