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= Plastic Slices MyPLC Status =

The Plastic Slices project uses small MyPLC-controlled installations of PlanetLab nodes at several participating campuses, to provide compute resources with network interfaces on the [wiki:NetworkCore OpenFlow-controlled backbone].

== MyPLC configuration requirements ==

The [wiki:MyPlc/NetworkCoreRecommendations] page details the common configuration for MyPLCs participating in Plastic Slices, and links to instructions for how to implement each step.  In brief, the necessary configuration items are:
 * [wiki:MyPlc/NetworkCoreRecommendations#InstallandconfiguretheSFAsoftware AM]: Install and configure the SFA software which implements the GENI AM API
 * [wiki:MyPlc/NetworkCoreRecommendations#ConfigureSFAtotrustparticipatingGENIsliceauthorities SA]: Configure SFA to trust participating GENI slice authorities
 * [wiki:MyPlc/NetworkCoreRecommendations#Ensurethatthesitecontainingyournodesispublic Pub]: Ensure that the site containing your nodes is public
 * [wiki:MyPlc/NetworkCoreRecommendations#ConnectnodesecondaryinterfacetoOpenFlow-controlledVLANsusablebyexperimenters Conn]: Connect node secondary interface to OpenFlow-controlled VLANs usable by experimenters
 * [wiki:MyPlc/NetworkCoreRecommendations#Configuresubinterfacesonsecondaryinterfaces IF]: Configure subinterfaces on secondary interfaces
 * [wiki:MyPlc/NetworkCoreRecommendations#ConfigurestaticarptablesforPlasticSlicesIPs ARP]: Configure static arp tables for Plastic Slices IPs
 * [wiki:MyPlc/NetworkCoreRecommendations#EnsureallIPaddressesonanodearevisibletoslivers Vis]: Ensure all IP addresses on a node are visible to slivers
 * [wiki:MyPlc/NetworkCoreRecommendations#EnsureMyPLCanditsnodesarereachablethroughfirewalls FW]: Ensure MyPLC and its nodes are reachable through firewalls
 * [wiki:MyPlc/NetworkCoreRecommendations#ConfigurefastnodemanagerresponsetoMyPLCchanges QS]: Configure fast nodemanager response to MyPLC changes

== MyPLC configuration status ==

This table lists the participating campuses.  Use it to record configuration that has been verified.  The column names use the abbreviations above, plus the following additional information:
 * Node count: how many MyPLC-controlled planetlab nodes are in the testbed?
 * OF VLAN: The VLAN used at this campus to implement [wiki:OpenFlow/CampusTopology#Port-basedphysicalVLANtranslation Port-based physical VLAN translation].  This is VLAN 1750 in the example on that page.

The deadlines are from [wiki:PlasticSlices/ProjectPlan].

||'''Campus'''||'''Deadline'''||'''Node count'''||'''OF VLAN'''||'''AM'''||'''SA'''||'''Pub'''||'''IF'''||'''ARP'''||'''Vis'''||'''FW'''||'''QS'''||'''Comments'''||
|| BBN        || 2011-04-25   || 5              || 1750        ||        ||        ||         ||        ||         ||         ||        ||        ||              ||
|| Clemson    || 2011-04-25   || 2              || 1750        ||        ||        ||         ||        ||         ||         ||        ||        ||              ||
|| Stanford   || 2011-04-25   ||                ||             ||        ||        ||         ||        ||         ||         ||        ||        ||              ||
|| Rutgers    || 2011-05-02   ||                ||             ||        ||        ||         ||        ||         ||         ||        ||        ||              ||
|| Washington || 2011-05-02   ||                ||             ||        ||        ||         ||        ||         ||         ||        ||        ||              ||
|| Wisconsin  || 2011-05-02   ||                ||             ||        ||        ||         ||        ||         ||         ||        ||        ||              ||
|| Gatech     || 2011-05-09   ||                ||             ||        ||        ||         ||        ||         ||         ||        ||        ||              ||
|| Indiana    || 2011-05-09   ||                ||             ||        ||        ||         ||        ||         ||         ||        ||        ||              ||

== Links ==

Some other pages containing relevant information about participating MyPLC installations:
 * [wiki:HelloGENI]: Description of the Hello GENI experiment.  This page records a last IP octet and `eth1` MAC address used by each participating MyPLC-controlled PlanetLab node.