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    2626The Open vSwitch installation provided by the RSpec included in this tutorial is located in ''/opt/openvswitch-1.6.1-F15''. You will find Open vSwitch commands in ''/opt/openvswitch-1.6.1-F15/bin'' and ''/opt/openvswitch-1.6.1-F15/sbin''. Some of these commands may be helpful to you. If you add these paths to your shell’s ''$PATH'', you will be able to access their manual pages with man. Note that ''$PATH'' will not affect sudo, so you will still have to provide the absolute path to sudo; the absolute path is omitted from the following examples for clarity and formatting.
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    28  - '''2.1 ovs-vsctl'''[[BR]]
     28 - '''ovs-vsctl'''[[BR]]
    2929 Open vSwitch switches are primarily configured using the ''ovs-vsctl'' command. For exploring, you may find the ''ovs-vsctl show'' command useful, as it dumps the status of all virtual switches on the local Open vSwitch instance. Once you have some information on the local switch configurations, ''ovs-vsctl'' provides a broad range of capabilities that you will likely find useful for expanding your network setup to more complex configurations for testing and verification. In particular, the subcommands ''add-br'', ''add-port'', and ''set-controller'' may be of interest.
    30  - '''2.2 ovs-ofctl''' [[BR]]
     30 - '''ovs-ofctl''' [[BR]]
    3131 The switch host configured by the given rspec listens for incoming OpenFlow connections on localhost port 6634.
    3232 You can use this to query the switch state using the ''ovs-ofctl'' command. In particular, you may find the ''dump-tables'' and ''dump-flows'' subcommands useful. For example, ''sudo ovs-ofctl dump-flows tcp:127.0.0.1:6634'' will output lines that look like this:
     
    3636 }}}
    3737 This indicates that any TCP segment with source IP in the 10.10.10.0/24 subnet should be sent to the OpenFlow controller for processing, that it has been 78 seconds since such a segment was last seen, that one such segment has been seen so far, and the total number of bytes in packets matching this rule is 74. The other fields are perhaps interesting, but you will probably not need them for debugging. (Unless, of course, you choose to use multiple tables — an exercise in OpenFlow 1.1 functionality left to the reader.)
    38  - '''2.3 Unix utilities'''[[BR]]
     38 - '''Unix utilities'''[[BR]]
    3939 You will want to use a variety of Unix utilities, in addition to the tools listed in [http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GENIEducation/SampleAssignments/OpenFlowAssignment/ExerciseLayout ExerciseLayout], to test your controllers. The standard ping and ''/usr/sbin/arping'' tools are useful for debugging connectivity (but make sure your controller passes ''ICMP ECHO REQUEST'' and ''REPLY'' packets and ''ARP'' traffic, respectively!), and the command ''netstat -an'' will show all active network connections on a Unix host; the TCP connections of interest in this exercise will be at the top of the listing. The format of netstat output is out of the scope of this tutorial, but information is available online and in the manual pages.
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    4141= Exercises =
    42  - '''3.3 Load Balancing''' -- Files to download: [http://www.gpolab.bbn.com/experiment-support/OpenFlowExampleExperiment/load-balancer.rb load-balancer.rb], [http://www.gpolab.bbn.com/experiment-support/OpenFlowExampleExperiment/netinfo.py netinfo.py] [[BR]]
     42 - '''Load Balancing''' -- Files to download: [http://www.gpolab.bbn.com/experiment-support/OpenFlowExampleExperiment/ExoGENI/load-balancer.rb load-balancer.rb] [[BR]]
    4343 Load balancing in computer networking is the division of network traffic between two or more network devices or paths, typically for the purpose of achieving higher total throughput than either one path, ensuring a specific maximum latency or minimum bandwidth to some or all flows, or similar purposes. For this exercise, you will design a load-balancing OpenFlow controller capable of collecting external data and using it to divide traffic between dissimilar network paths so as to achieve full bandwidth utilization with minimal queuing delays. [[BR]]
    4444 An interesting property of removing the controller from an OpenFlow device and placing it in an external system of arbitrary computing power and storage capability is that decision-making for network flows based on external state becomes reasonable. Traditional routing and switching devices make flow decisions based largely on local data (or perhaps data from adjacent network devices), but an OpenFlow controller can collect data from servers, network devices, or any other convenient source, and use this data to direct incoming flows. [[BR]]
     
    4747  '''Experimental Setup [[BR]]'''
    4848  [[Image(OpenFlowAssignment2.png, 50%, nolink)]] [[BR]]
    49   Follow instructions in the [http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GENIEducation/SampleAssignments/OpenFlowAssignment/ExerciseLayout/DesignSetup DesignSetup] step to build a load balancing experiment topology. Your GENI resources will be configured in a manner similar to the above figure. The various parts of the diagram are as follows:
     49  Follow instructions in the [http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GENIEducation/SampleAssignments/OpenFlowLoadBalancerTutorial/ExerciseLayout/DesignSetup DesignSetup] step to build a load balancing experiment topology. Your GENI resources will be configured in a manner similar to the above figure. The various parts of the diagram are as follows:
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    51     - '''Inside and Outside Nodes''': These nodes can be any exclusive ProtoGENI PCs.
    52     - '''Switch:''' The role of the Open vSwitch node may be played either by a software Open vSwitch installation on a ProtoGENI node, or by the OpenFlow switches available in GENI — consult your instructor.
     51    - '''Inside and Outside Nodes''': These nodes can be any ExoGENI Virtual Nodes.
     52    - '''Switch:''' The role of the Open vSwitch node may be played either by a software Open vSwitch installation on a ExoGENI Virtual Node, or by the OpenFlow switches available in GENI — consult your instructor.
    5353    - '''Traffic Shaping Nodes (Left and Right)''': These are Linux hosts with two network interfaces. You can configure netem on the two traffic shaping nodes to have differing characteristics; the specific values don’t matter, as long as they are reasonable. (No slower than a few hundred kbps, no faster than a few tens of Mbps with 0-100 ms of delay would be a good guideline.) Use several different bandwidth combinations as you test your load balancer.
    5454    - '''Aggregator''': This node is a Linux host running Open vSwitch with a switch controller that will cause TCP connections to “follow” the decisions made by your OpenFlow controller on the Switch node.