ProtoGENI control plane integration status

[pgunn@cs.cmu.edu]

It is possible to allocate emulator and homenet nodes using ProtoGENI node support. Right now this is not enabled for any homenet nodes because of policy/legal issues, although I will make available my development box in my office for this purpose shortly. I will enable wireless node support shortly as well.

Right now there is no control mechanism to setup external networking for these nodes, although it can be done manually. I have a solution for this that I need to integrate into emulab, with Utah's help.

In sum, the work for this is done, it needs enabling and testing, and it's less automated than it will be eventually, although I believe that automation falls outside the scope of this ticket.

[Aaron Falk]

Not sure what you mean by "there is no control mechanism to setup external networking for these nodes". Static network configurations are OK for the time being. The important issue for this milestone is that ProtoGENI can allocate slivers in HOMENET nodes and the Emulator.

[pgunn@cs.cmu.edu]

ProtoGENI experiments can use Homenet and Emulator nodes. Emulator support is complete. Homenet node support is as complete as it can be given that these are (remote) shared nodes and the present nature of support for those nodes in Emulab. Nodes are usable from a ProtoGENI-allocated experiment, so I believe this ticket is done.

[pgunn@cs.cmu.edu]

​http://moo.cmcl.cs.cmu.edu/wiki/index.php/Homenet_Connectivity describes this in more detail.