Revision as of 02:41, 16 September 2016

INTRO

This is a GUI driven demo environment for beginners with VPP

REQUIREMENTS

• vagrant (1.8)
• virtualbox / vmware fusion

GETTING STARTED

• clone the repo
• modify env.sh if needed and

 source ./env.sh
 vagrant up

• point browser to http://localhost:5000

RUNNING DEMOs

Select from

• bridging
• routing
• tracing

On the left menu, and click next.

Output from VPP is displayed in a "terminal" style window.

Commands can be copied to the clipboard for you try yourself.

ADDING YOUR OWN DEMO

• Map out list of text and commands you want to accompany it
• cd vppsb/vpp-userdemo/tutorials
• cp bridging mydemo
• Modify any container IP addresses and gateways and the INSTR/CMD arrays

C1_IP="172.16.1.2/24"
C1_GW="172.16.1.1"
C2_IP="172.16.1.3/24"
C2_GW="172.16.1.1"

INSTR=() 
CMD=()
INSTR+=("Welcome to the bridging demo. This will show you some simple commands to connect two linux containers to VPP via an L2 bridge.")
CMD+=("")

INSTR+=("To show interfaces type:")
CMD+=("sudo vppctl show inter")

INSTR+=("Lets examine our workloads cone and ctwo")
CMD+=("sudo lxc-attach -n cone -- ip -o a")
 
INSTR+=("")
CMD+=("sudo lxc-attach -n ctwo -- ip -o a")

• Refresh GUI - it will be right there!