[ODL] Import ODL Controller using Maven into Eclipse on Windows 10

 

Prerequisites

Java

目前使用的是OpenJDK, 需在Windows的系統環境變數做"JAVA_HOME"設定, 變數值為安裝的JDK路徑

Eclipse

需先在Windows 10上安裝Eclipse IDE, 目前使用的版本是 2019-09 R (4.13)

Maven

相關安裝Maven可參考: https://howtodoinjava.com/maven/how-to-install-maven-on-windows/

Mave下載位置: https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi

下載並解壓縮完成後, 請在系統環境變數做"MAVEN_HOME" and "M2_HOME"設定如下:

Import ODL Controller using Maven into Eclipse

Eclipse 環境設定 for Maven路徑

Install m2e plugin

Help --> Install New Software

在 "Work with" 選擇 m2e release repository 或是 自行增加 ( 輸入 URL 後按下 "Add" )

勾選Maven Integration for Eclipse, 然後按下 "Finish"

把Maven's "Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration" 改選為 "Ignore"

Import ODL Controller

ODL Controller GitHub: https://github.com/opendaylight/controller

切換到 tag: v3.0.2

$git checkout tags/v3.0.2

Project --> Import

以上述方式import project, 只剩下這種的Maven Error:

"Execution generate-depends-file of goal org.apache.servicemix.tooling:depends-maven-plugin:1.4.0:generate-depends-file failed"

[Floodlight] A simle note from Floodlight dev discussion

For some kind of the reasons, I stopped tracking what's going on Floodlight for a while. I post my previous notes about Floodlight and OpenFlow from Floodlight dev discussion, and hope it is beneficial for those who are still working on it.

• Floodlight by default gets full packets from switch
  • OFPT_SET_CONFIG
  
  
• GreenMST module for Floodlight
  • GreenMST is a module used to build the Minimum Spanning Tree of an OpenFlow network, thus avoiding brodcast storm, using looped topologies with the LearningSwitch module and switches not supporting the Spanning Tree Protocol.
  • http://github.com/LucaPrete/GreenMST
  
  
• Wildcard Matching on network address
  • OFMatch mTo = new OFMatch();
    mTo.fromString("dl_type=0x800,nw_dst=224.128.0.0/9");
    System.out.println(mTo.toString()); // This prints nw_dst as 224.128.0.0/9
    System.out.println(mTo.getNetworkDestinationMaskLen()); //This prints destination mask length as 9
    But when I do dump-flows in the switch, it doesn't show any mask. It simply gives nw_dst as 224.128.0.0.
     
• Push static flows based on ingress ports
  • your forwarding would not work any more.  Reason is any packet coming to that port is forced out the same port, making LLDP no longer workable.  LLDP is needed for floodlight to learn topology and route/forward packets.
  
  
• BDDP Topology Discovery
  • In BSN BDDP and BSNPROBE types were defined.  BDDP is used in TopologyDiscovery to detect non-OpenFlow broadcast domains.  BSNPROBE is not used in Floodlight now.
  
  
• Disabling Flooding for a Switch Port
  • OFPortMod p = (OFPortMod) floodlightprovider.
    getOFMessageFactory().getMessage(OFType.PORT_MOD);
    p.setPortNumber((short) 4); // or your port number
    p.setConfig(config); // you have to enter the proper Integer to disable the port (see OpenFlow doc)
  • The setting is related with OFPPC_NO_FLOOD
  
  
• No NAT in Floodlight now
• Creating static flows in Floodlight
  • https://groups.google.com/a/openflowhub.org/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/floodlight-dev/kevin$20pietrow/floodlight-dev/lx5JXyDXumg/eAy1FNrFSm0J

• Northbound API
  • Right now all the decisions are made logically (load balancer, firewall) so they will never have to travel to other computers. As far as the ordering in which these are executed you can enforce some special ordering by returning something in the isCallbackOrderingPostreq methods supplied by the IFloodlightmodule interface. For instance in the firewall module we have...
    
    
    @Override
    public boolean isCallbackOrderingPostreq(OFType type, String name) {
        return (type.equals(OFType.PACKET_IN) && name.equals("forwarding"));
    }
    
    
    This says that the module has a post requirement and forces Packet_IN messages to be passed on to the forwarding module. This is an example of how you would enforce an ordering. You can probably find something similar in the loadbalancing module.
• Virtual Network
• multiple links between two controller islands (which is the case for fat tree topologies) are not supported by Floodlight, at least for now. See Supported Topologies for details.