Mininet, ONOS, and segment routing
Leaf and spine traffic engineering using segment routing and SDN and CORD: Open-source spine-leaf Fabric describe a demonstration at the 2015 Open Networking Summit using the ONOS SDN controller and a physical network of 8 switches.This article will describe how to emulate a leaf and spine network using Mininet and configure the ONOS segment routing application to provide equal cost multi-path (ECMP) routing of flows across the fabric. The Mininet Dashboard application running on the sFlow-RT real-time analytics platform is used to provide visibility into traffic flows across the emulated network.
First, run ONOS using Docker:
docker run --name onos --rm -p 6653:6653 -p 8181:8181 -d onosproject/onosUse the graphical interface, http://onos:8181, to enable the OpenFlow Provider Suite, Network Config Host Provider, Network Config Link Provider, and Segment Routing applications. The screen shot above shows the resulting set of enabled services.
Next, install sFlow-RT and the Mininet Dashboard application on host with Mininet:
wget https://inmon.com/products/sFlow-RT/sflow-rt.tar.gzStart sFlow-RT:
tar -xvzf sflow-rt.tar.gz
./sflow-rt/get-app.sh sflow-rt mininet-dashboard
./sflow-rt/start.shDownload the sr.py script:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sflow-rt/onos-sr/master/sr.pyStart Mininet:
sudo env ONOS=10.0.0.73 mn --custom sr.py,sflow-rt/extras/sflow.py \
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