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title	Launch freeRouter control plane along side BMv2 P4 dataplane

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title	Check telnet access for freerouter@2323

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language	bash
theme	Midnight
title	Setup BMv2 P4 dataplane communication channel via veth pair

sudo ip link add veth251 type veth peer name veth250
sudo ip link set veth250 up  
sudo ip link set veth251 up

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language	bash
theme	Midnight
title	freeRouter launch with supplied p4-freerouter-hw.txt and p4-freerouter-sw.txt with a console prompt

╭─[6:06:13]floui@debian ~/freeRouter  
╰─➤  java -jar lib/rtr.jar routersc etc/p4-freerouter-hw.txt etc/p4-freerouter-sw.txt
info cfg.cfgInit.doInit:cfgInit.java:556 booting
info cfg.cfgInit.doInit:cfgInit.java:680 initializing hardware
info cfg.cfgInit.doInit:cfgInit.java:687 applying defaults
info cfg.cfgInit.doInit:cfgInit.java:695 applying configuration
info cfg.cfgInit.doInit:cfgInit.java:721 done
welcome
line ready
freerouter#                                                                        3 ↵
info cfg.cfgInit.doInit:cfgInit.java:556 booting
info cfg.cfgInit.doInit:cfgInit.java:680 initializing hardware
info cfg.cfgInit.doInit:cfgInit.java:687 applying defaults
info cfg.cfgInit.doInit:cfgInit.java:695 applying configuration
info cfg.cfgInit.doInit:cfgInit.java:721 done
welcome
line ready
freerouter#

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language	bash
theme	Midnight
title	launch freeRouter pcapInt in order to stitch control plane and P4 BMv2 dataplane communication

╭─[1:00:53]floui@debian[1]  ~/freeRouter/bin  
╰─➤  sudo ./pcapInt.bin veth251 22709 127.0.0.1 22710 127.0.0.1                                                                                                      1 ↵
binded to local port 127.0.0.1 22709.
will send to 127.0.0.1 22710.
pcap version: libpcap version 1.8.1
opening interface veth251 with pcap1.x api
serving others
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language	bash
theme	Midnight
title	Run RARE P4 dataplane - simple_switch_grpc router.p4

export P4_RARE_ROOT=/home/floui/RARE/export P4_RARE_ROOT=/home/floui/RARE/02-PE-labs
sudo simple_switch_grpc --log-file $P4_RARE_ROOT/run/log/p4-freerouter.log \                                               
                        -i 1@enp0s9 \                        
                        -i 64@veth250 \                                                
                        --thrift-port 9090 --nanolog ipc://$P4_RARE_ROOT/run/bm-0-log.ipc --device-id 0 $P4_RARE_ROOT/build/simple_switch_grpc.json \
                        -- --grpc-server-addr 127.0.0.1:50051 > $P4_RARE_ROOT/run/log/p4-freerouter.out 2>&1 &

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language	bash
theme	Midnight
title	launch freeRouter pcapInt in order to stitch control plane and P4 BMv2 dataplane communication

╭─[1:00:53]floui@debian[1]  ~/freeRouter/bin  
╰─➤  sudo ./pcapInt.bin veth251 22709 127.0.0.1 22710 127.0.0.1
binded to local port 127.0.0.1 22709.
will send to 127.0.0.1 22710.
pcap version: libpcap version 1.8.1
opening interface veth251 with pcap1.x api
serving others
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language	bash
theme	Midnight
title	Run RARE P4 dataplane - simple_switch_grpc router.p4

export P4_RARE_ROOT=/home/floui/RARE/export P4_RARE_ROOT=/home/floui/RARE/02-PE-labs
sudo simple_switch_grpc --log-file $P4_RARE_ROOT/run/log/p4-freerouter.log \

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language	bash
theme	Midnight
title	Launch forwarder.p4 (p4runtime GRPC based interface)

╭─[2:07:10]floui@debian[1]  ~/RARE/02-PE-labs/p4src  ‹master*› 
╰─➤  ./forwarder.py                                           
                        -i 1@enp0s9 \                        
                        -i 64@veth250 \                           1 ↵
rx:  ['myaddr4_add', '224.0.0.0/4', '0', '1', '\n']
rx:  ['myaddr4_add', '255.255.255.255/32', '0', '1', '\n']
rx:  ['myaddr6_add', 'ff00::/8', '0', '1', '\n']
rx:  ['myaddr4_add', '192.168.1.0/24', '-1', '1', '\n']
rx:  ['myaddr4_add', '192.168.1.131/32', '-1', '1', '\n']
rx:  ['myaddr6_add', 'fd7d:a59c:650b::/60', '-1', '1', '\n']
rx:  ['myaddr6_add', 'fd7d:a59c:650b::666/128', '-1', '1', '\n']
rx:  ['myaddr6_add', 'fe80::/64', '-1', '1', '\n']
rx:  ['mylabel6_add', '270549', '1', '\n']
rx:  ['mylabel4_add', '606864', '1', '\n']
rx:  ['state', '1', '1', '0', '\n']
rx:  ['mtu', '1', '9000', '\n']
rx:  ['portvrf_add', '1', '1', '\n']
rx:  ['neigh4_add', '14252', '192.168.1.1', '34:ce:00:67:18:c2', '1', '00:72:3e:18:1b:6f', '1', '\n']
rx:  ['neigh4_add', '52194', '192.168.1.143', '9c:eb:e8:d5:2c:51', '1', '00:72:3e:18:1b:6f', '1', '\n']
rx:  ['keepalive', '\n']
rx:  ['keepalive', '\n']
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                        --thrift-port 9090 --nanolog ipc://$P4_RARE_ROOT/run/bm-0-log.ipc --device-id 0 $P4_RARE_ROOT/build/simple_switch_grpc.json \
                        -- --grpc-server-addr 127.0.0.1:50051 > $P4_RARE_ROOT/run/log/p4-freerouter.out 2>&1 &

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language	bash
theme	Midnight
title	FreeRouter telnet access from Virtualbox VM guest via port 2323Launch forwarder.p4 (p4runtime GRPC based interface)

╭─[72:07:10]floui@debian[1]  ~/RARE/02-PE-labs/p4src  ‹master*› 
╰─➤  ./forwarder.py
rx:  ['myaddr4_add', '224.0.0.0/4', '0', '1', '\n']
rx:  ['myaddr4_add', '255.255.255.255/32', '0', '1', '\n']
rx:  ['myaddr6_add', 'ff00::/8', '0', '1', '\n']
rx:  ['myaddr4_add', '192.168.1.0/24', '-1', '1', '\n']
rx:  ['myaddr4_add', '192.168.1.131/32', '-1', '1', '\n']
rx:  ['myaddr6_add', 'fd7d:a59c:650b::/60', '-1', '1', '\n']
rx:  ['myaddr6_add', 'fd7d:a59c:650b::666/128', '-1', '1', '\n']
rx:  ['myaddr6_add', 'fe80::/64', '-1', '1', '\n']
rx:  ['mylabel6_add', '270549', '1', '\n']
rx:  ['mylabel4_add', '606864', '1', '\n']
rx:  ['state', '1', '1', '0', '\n']
rx:  ['mtu', '1', '9000', '\n']
rx:  ['portvrf_add', '1', '1', '\n']
rx:  ['neigh4_add', '14252', '192.168.1.1', '34:ce:00:67:18:c2', '1', '00:72:3e:18:1b:6f', '1', '\n']
rx:  ['neigh4_add', '52194', '192.168.1.143', '9c:eb:e8:d5:2c:51', '1', '00:72:3e:18:1b:6f', '1', '\n']
rx:  ['keepalive', '\n']
rx:  ['keepalive', '\n']
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title	Check telnet access for freerouter@2323

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language	bash
theme	Midnight
title	FreeRouter telnet access from Virtualbox VM guest via port 2323

╭─[7:07:41]floui@debian[1]  ~/freeRouter/etc  
╰─➤  telnet localhost 232341]floui@debian[1]  ~/freeRouter/etc  
╰─➤  telnet localhost 2323                                                                                                                                           1 ↵
Trying ::1...
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
welcome
line ready
freerouter#

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