Building Modern Networks by Steven Noble

Author:Steven Noble [Noble, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: COM048000 - COMPUTERS / Systems Architecture / Distributed Systems and Computing, COM043000 - COMPUTERS / Networking / General, COM043060 - COMPUTERS / Networking / Vendor Specific
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Published: 2017-07-31T04:00:00+00:00

For this exercise, we will use the Indigo Virtual Switch (IVS), which is a software-based high-performance OpenFlow switch that utilizes Open vSwitch (OVS). If you do not have access to a Linux machine to do the work, follow these directions to create a virtual machine under VirtualBox:

To install IVS, you can pull it down from Git:

Open Terminal on a Linux box and run the following command:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/floodlight/ivs.git

This will download Indigo Virtual Switch and all of its necessary parts. From there, you can enter the ivs directory and run make to build the switch. You should see something like this:

$ git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/floodlight/ivs.git

Cloning into 'ivs'...

remote: Counting objects: 6881, done.

remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.

remote: Total 6881 (delta 1), reused 1 (delta 1), pack-reused 6878

Receiving objects: 100% (6881/6881), 1.55 MiB | 2.89 MiB/s, done.

Resolving deltas: 100% (4241/4241), done.

Checking connectivity... done.

Submodule 'submodules/bigcode' (git://github.com/floodlight/bigcode.git) registered for path 'submodules/bigcode'

Submodule 'submodules/indigo' (git://github.com/floodlight/indigo.git) registered for path 'submodules/indigo'

Submodule 'submodules/infra' (git://github.com/floodlight/infra.git) registered for path 'submodules/infra'

Submodule 'submodules/loxigen-artifacts' (git://github.com/floodlight/loxigen-artifacts.git) registered for path 'submodules/loxigen-artifacts'

Submodule 'submodules/luajit-2.0' (git://github.com/floodlight/luajit-2.0.git) registered for path 'submodules/luajit-2.0'

Cloning into 'submodules/bigcode'...

remote: Counting objects: 3262, done.

remote: Total 3262 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 3262

Receiving objects: 100% (3262/3262), 939.43 KiB | 296.00 KiB/s, done.

Resolving deltas: 100% (1991/1991), done.

Checking connectivity... done.

Submodule path 'submodules/bigcode': checked out '6d63049bc7a46facad4b9706c21fcae633cf5cac'

...

Cloning into 'submodules/luajit-2.0'...

remote: Counting objects: 12035, done.

remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2229/2229), done.

remote: Total 12035 (delta 9823), reused 12002 (delta 9801), pack-reused 0

Receiving objects: 100% (12035/12035), 3.51 MiB | 2.29 MiB/s, done.

Resolving deltas: 100% (9823/9823), done.

Checking connectivity... done.

Submodule path 'submodules/luajit-2.0': checked out 'c2924c3e1d17ffe469a654233481d7be1248d7e0'

You can see that there are a lot of software repositories downloaded for IVS including loxigen and other necessary infrastructure. Now we will build the software.

If you see any submodule failures, you can do the following:

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