hwid j1900-i211
! cpu_port
int eth0 eth - 127.0.0.1 20001 127.0.0.1 20002
! freerouter control port for message packet-in/out in P4 VRF _ONLY_
tcp2vrf 9080 p4 9080
! freeroouter local access in p4 VRF _ONLY_
tcp2vrf 2323 p4 23
! launch a process called "veth0" that actually link to veth0b
! cmd for control plane/dataplane communication unified messaging: ip link add veth0a type veth peer name veth0b
! cmd for appliance Linux access: ip link add veth1a type veth peer name veth1b
! cmd for integrated wifi: ip link add veth2a type veth peer name veth2b
! external wifi AP
proc hostapd /usr/sbin/hostapd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
! integrated wifi AP
proc wlan /rtr/pcap2pcap.bin wlan0 veth2a
! DP/CP communication process
proc veth0 /rtr/pcapInt.bin veth0a 20002 127.0.0.1 20001 127.0.0.1
! DP DPDK process
proc p4emu /rtr/p4dpdk.bin --vdev=net_af_packet0,iface=veth0b --vdev=net_af_packet1,iface=veth2b --vdev=net_af_packet2,iface=veth1b 127.0.0.1 9080 6

Let's spend some times on this hardware configuration file, as you might have notice there are additional interesting lines worth to mention:

• Exclamation mark "!" are comments
• hwid is a text field that would just designate the hardware on which freeRouter is running. (output of : show platform)
• proc <process-name>

It is possible within freeRouter startup to launch processes. We use here this feature to start control plane / dataplane communication via veth pair: veth0a and veth0b and also P4Emu/dpdk, p4dpdk.bin packet processing backend.

• proc p4emu /rtr/p4dpdk.bin --vdev=net_af_packet0,iface=veth0b --vdev=net_af_packet1,iface=veth2b --vdev=net_af_packet2,iface=veth1b 127.0.0.1 9080 6

In dpdk, by default dpdk interfaces have port_ids that are sequentially allocated and in the order of appearance in dpdk-devbind --status output usually sorted by pci_id. In the below output interface enp0s1 has port_id #0 and in dpdk it would be pci_id:00:01.0

enp0s1 would be: #0 with pci_id: 00:01.0

enp0s2 would be: #1 with pci_id: 00:02.0

enp0s5 would be: #2 with pci_id: 00:05.0

enp0s6 would be: #3 with pci_id: 00:06.0

enp0s7 would be: #4 with pci_id: 00:07.0

enp0s8 would be: #5 with pci_id: 00:08.0

dpdk-devbind.py --status

Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver
============================================
0000:01:00.0 'I211 Gigabit Network Connection 1539' drv=uio_pci_generic unused=igb
0000:02:00.0 'I211 Gigabit Network Connection 1539' drv=uio_pci_generic unused=igb
0000:05:00.0 'I211 Gigabit Network Connection 1539' drv=uio_pci_generic unused=igb
0000:06:00.0 'I211 Gigabit Network Connection 1539' drv=uio_pci_generic unused=igb
0000:07:00.0 'I211 Gigabit Network Connection 1539' drv=uio_pci_generic unused=igb
0000:08:00.0 'I211 Gigabit Network Connection 1539' drv=uio_pci_generic unused=igb

Network devices using kernel driver
===================================
0000:09:00.0 'AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) 002a' if=wlan0 drv=ath9k unused=uio_pci_generic 

No 'Baseband' devices detected
==============================

Other Crypto devices
====================
0000:00:1a.0 'Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Trusted Execution Engine 0f18' unused=uio_pci_generic

No 'Eventdev' devices detected
==============================

No 'Mempool' devices detected
=============================

No 'Compress' devices detected
==============================

No 'Misc (rawdev)' devices detected
===================================

• DPDK --vdev addition. In this precise case we instruct DPDK to take into account additional veth endpoint we created respectively for
  • Control plane / data plane communication
  • Linux out of band management access via SSH we installed previously during Debian package installation
  • integrated hardware WIFI access point
• in DPDK vdev interface will have in order of apparition in the command line:
  • DP/CP communication: 6 ↔ veth0b
  • integrated WIFI: 7 ↔ veth2b
  • Linux out of band management access: 8 ↔ veth1b

hostname dpdk-freeroutermjolnir
buggy
!
!
vrf definition inet
 exit
!
vrf definition p4
 exit
!
interface ethernet0
 description freerouter@P4_CPU_PORT[veth0a]
 no shutdown
 no log-link-change
 exit
!
interface sdn1
 description freerouter@DPDK[port-1]
 mtu 1500
 vrf forwarding inet
 ipv4 address 192.168.0.90 255.255.255.0
 no shutdown
 no log-link-change
 exit
!
interface sdn2
 description freerouter@DPDK[port-2]
 mtu 1500
 shutdown
 no log-link-change
 exit
!
interface sdn3
 description freerouter@DPDK[port-3]
 mtu 1500
 shutdown
 no log-link-change
 exit
!
interface sdn4
 description freerouter@DPDK[port-4]
 mtu 1500
 shutdown
 no log-link-change
 exit
!
interface sdn5
 description freerouter@DPDK[port-5]
 mtu 1500
 shutdown
 no log-link-change
 exit
!
interface sdn6
 description freerouter@DPDK[port-6]
 mtu 1500
 shutdown
 no log-link-change
 exit
!
interface sdn998
 description freerouter@DPDK[port-7 --> veth2a] integrated wifi
 mtu 1500
 shutdown
 no log-link-change
 exit
!
interface sdn999
 description freerouter@OOBM[port-8 --> veth1a] Linux management
 mtu 1500
 vrf forwarding inet
 ipv4 address 192.168.128.1 255.255.255.0
 no shutdown
 no log-link-change
 exit

server telnet telnet
 security protocol telnet
 no exec authorization
 no login authentication
 vrf p4
 exit
!
server p4lang p4
 export-vrf inet 1
 export-port sdn1 0 1 0 0 0
 export-port sdn2 1 1 0 0 0
 export-port sdn3 2 1 0 0 0
 export-port sdn4 3 1 0 0 0
 export-port sdn5 4 1 0 0 0
 export-port sdn6 5 1 0 0 0
 export-port sdn998 7 1 0 0 0
 export-port sdn999 8 1 0 0 0
 interconnect ethernet0
 vrf p4
 exit
!
!
end

• For now integrated wifi is shut. We will see in later article how to activate it
• At Linux level, if you noticed in the previous article
  • management IP subnet is 192.168.128.0/24. OOBM appliance IP is then 192.168.128.254

ip addr flush dev veth1a
ip addr add 192.168.128.254/24 dev veth1a

• management IP seen from freeRouter@sdn999 with IP 192.168.128.1 within 192.168.128.0/24
• with configured a Linux static routes

route add default gw 192.168.128.1