IETF 102 Hackathon

Alternative southbound interface to flow enabled network bridges

This is a new project originally defined in the following post on hackathon@ietf.org https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/hackathon/vb27RmJivbwy8UURV_KXh2IzZd0

The project consists of 3 tasks:

1. Design and publish draft with YANG model of a flow enabled network bridge.
2. Device (server) side model implementation - loadable module for some of the available opensource NETCONF servers implementing the model for a OpenFlow device as a proxy controller with a single node.
3. Controller (client) side plug-in implementation - ncflowplugin for

ODL interacting with NETCONF mounted nodes implementing the YANG model that ideally can coexist with openflowplugin.

Progress:

Design and publish draft with YANG model of a flow enabled network bridge.

Done - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-vassilev-netmod-network-bridge/

Device (server) side model implementation

Done - https://github.com/vlvassilev/yuma123/tree/master/example-modules/ietf-network-bridge

Controller (client) side plug-in implementation - ncflowplugin for ODL

Incomplete.

Walkthrough

Mount the netconf device:

yangcli admin@localhost> merge /modules/module[name='netconfflow-0'][type='sal-netconf-connector'] -- address=localhost sal-netconf:port=830 tcp-only=false username=tester password=tester sal-netconf:event-executor/type=netty-event-executor sal-netconf:event-executor/name=global-event-executor sal-netconf:binding-registry/type=binding-broker-osgi-registry sal-netconf:binding-registry/name=binding-osgi-broker sal-netconf:dom-registry/type=dom-broker-osgi-registry sal-netconf:dom-registry/name=dom-broker sal-netconf:client-dispatcher/type=netconf-client-dispatcher sal-netconf:client-dispatcher/name=global-netconf-dispatcher sal-netconf:processing-executor/type=threadpool sal-netconf:processing-executor/name=global-netconf-processing-executor sal-netconf:keepalive-executor/type=scheduled-threadpool sal-netconf:keepalive-executor/name=global-netconf-ssh-scheduled-executor