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Open vSwitch (OVS) Switch
Running an OVS Switch on Ubuntuu 16 outlined here:
- Request your topology via omni or GENI Portal. Current default image version is Ubuntu 16, which will change over time.
- On the node you plan to use as a switch run the following:
sudo apt-get install openvswitch-switch -y
- Once OVS is installed, a service script is created on your node:
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/openvswitch-switch.service
. This allows you to stop and start the openvswitch server. Service is automatically started for you, to check it status:
sudo systemctl status openvswitch-switch
- A script geniovs.sh is available to the dataplane interface to the OVS bridge:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GENI-NSF/geni-support/master/Utilities/geniovs.sh sh ./geniovs.sh
Your switch is now ready to use!
If you would like to skip the 4 steps above, and simple load a custom image that has the OVS service running with all dataplane interface on its bridge, then you can use the custom image below:
<disk_image url="https://www.instageni.sox.net/image_metadata.php?uuid=06c6ff42-5aa4-11e7-9a2c-000000000000" name="urn:publicid:IDN+instageni.sox.net+image+ch-geni-net:OVSnonOF:0"/>
If you have the openvswitch service running and would like to add OpenFlow to the mix, simply execute the following:
sudo ovs-vsctl set-fail-mode br0 secure sudo ovs-vsctl set-controller br0 tcp:<controller_ip>:6633