Progressive VPP Tutorial

Learn to run FD.io VPP on a single Ubuntu 16.04 VM using Vagrant with this walkthrough covering basic FD.io VPP scenarios. Useful FD.io VPP commands will be used, and will discuss basic operations, and the state of a running FD.io VPP on a system.

Note

This is not intended to be a ‘How to Run in a Production Environment’ set of instructions.

• Setting up your environment
  • Install Virtual Box and Vagrant
  • Create a Vagrant Directory
  • Running Vagrant
  • Setting up VPP environment with Vagrant
  • Install VPP
  • Create some startup files
• Running VPP
• Creating an Interface
  • Skills to be Learned
  • VPP commands learned in this exercise
  • Topology
  • Initial State
  • Create veth interfaces on host
  • Assign an IP address
  • Create vpp host-interface
• Using the trace command
  • Skills to be Learned
  • Basic Trace Commands
  • Add Trace
  • Ping from Host to VPP
  • Examine Trace of ping from host to VPP
  • Clear trace buffer
  • Ping from VPP to Host
  • Examine Trace of ping from VPP to host
  • Examine ARP table (neighbors)
  • Examine routing tables
• Connecting Two FD.io VPP Instances
  • Skills to be Learned
  • Topology
  • Initial state
  • Running a second FD.io VPP instances
  • Create memif interface on vpp1
  • Create memif interface on vpp2
  • Ping from vpp1 to vpp2
• Routing
  • Skills to be Learned
  • VPP command learned in this exercise
  • Topology
  • Initial State
  • Setup host route
  • Setup return route on vpp2
  • Ping from host through vpp1 to vpp2
• Switching
  • Skills to be Learned
  • FD.io VPP command learned in this exercise
  • Topology
  • Initial state
  • Run FD.io VPP instances
  • Connect vpp1 to host
  • Connect vpp1 to vpp2
  • Configure Bridge Domain on vpp1
  • Configure loopback interface on vpp2
  • Configure bridge domain on vpp2
  • Ping from host to vpp and vpp to host
  • Examine l2 fib