Example-olive

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Olive example

Authors:
David Fernández (david at dit.upm.es)
version 1.9, July 8th, 2011


Scenario

A simple example scenario designed to show and experiment with the Olive based Juniper router emulation capabilities of VNX. The scenario is made of 6 virtual machines: three Olive routers (r1, r2, r3) interconected in a triangle topology; and three Linux (Ubuntu) hosts (h1, h2, h3), each connected to a LAN serviced by one of the routers (see figure below). The host has an interface on the scenario connected to one of the LANs.

Olive example scenario map
(generated using "vnx -f example_olive.xml -v -t")

To start the scenario just type:

cd /usr/share/vnx/examples/
vnx -f example_olive.xml -v --create

After that you will see the consoles of the 6 virtual machines created. To access the Ubuntu hosts just use the standard login/password (root/xxxx). To access the Olive routers use whatever you have configured (remember that we cannot distribute root-file-systems for Olive; you have to create it yourself and be aware of the legal restrictions).

At startup, the Olive routers load a configuration that is made of the configuration specified in the <conf> tag of each router:

<conf>conf/example_olive/r1.conf</conf>

and the configuration commands derived from the interfaces and routes (<if> and <route> tags) values in the VNX XML specification. For example, in the case of router r1, the interfaces specified:

   <if id="1" net="Lan1" name="fxp0">
     <ipv4>10.0.1.1/24</ipv4>
     <ipv6>2001:db8:1::1/64</ipv6>
   </if>
   <if id="2" net="ptp12" name="fxp1">
     <ipv4>10.0.0.1/30</ipv4>
     <ipv6>2001:db8:12::1/64</ipv6>
   </if>
   <if id="3" net="ptp13" name="fxp2">
     <ipv4>10.0.0.9/30</ipv4>
     <ipv6>2001:db8:13::1/64</ipv6>
   </if>

are translated into the following commands added to the router configuration:

interfaces {
    fxp0 {
        unit 0 {
            family inet {
                address 10.0.1.1/24;
            }
            family inet6 {
                address 2001:db8:1::1/64;
            }
        }
    }
    fxp1 {
        unit 0 {    
            family inet {
                address 10.0.0.1/30;
            }       
            family inet6 {
                address 2001:db8:12::1/64;
            }       
        }           
    }               
    fxp2 {          
        unit 0 {    
            family inet {
                address 10.0.0.9/30;
            }       
            family inet6 {
                address 2001:db8:13::1/64;
            }       
        }           
    }               
}             

You can see the results of the configuration commands executed over Olive routers in the VNX ACE daemon log file:

root@r1% less /var/log/vnxolived.log




You can show the map of the scenario with:

vnx -f example_olive.xml -v --show-map

VNX Description

<vnx xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="/usr/share/xml/vnx/vnx-1.97.xsd">
  <global>
    <version>1.92</version>
    <scenario_name>example_olive</scenario_name>
    <automac offset="0"/>
    <vm_mgmt type="none" />
    <vm_defaults>
            <console id="0" display="no"/>
            <console id="1" display="yes"/>
    </vm_defaults>
    <!--olive_ext>simple_olive-olext.xml</olive_ext-->
  </global>
    
  <net name="Lan1" mode="virtual_bridge" />
  <net name="Lan2" mode="virtual_bridge" />
  <net name="Lan3" mode="virtual_bridge" />
  <net name="ptp12" mode="virtual_bridge" />
  <net name="ptp13" mode="virtual_bridge" />
  <net name="ptp23" mode="virtual_bridge" />
      
  <!-- NODES -->
  <vm name="r1" type="libvirt" subtype="kvm" os="olive">
    <filesystem type="cow">/usr/share/vnx/filesystems/root_fs_olive</filesystem>
    <mem>256M</mem>
    <conf>conf/example_olive/r1.conf</conf>
    <if id="1" net="Lan1" name="fxp0">
      <ipv4>10.0.1.1/24</ipv4>
      <ipv6>2001:db8:1::1/64</ipv6>
    </if>
    <if id="2" net="ptp12" name="fxp1">
      <ipv4>10.0.0.1/30</ipv4>
      <ipv6>2001:db8:12::1/64</ipv6>
    </if>
    <if id="3" net="ptp13" name="fxp2">
      <ipv4>10.0.0.9/30</ipv4>
      <ipv6>2001:db8:13::1/64</ipv6>
    </if>
  </vm>

  <vm name="r2" type="libvirt" subtype="kvm" os="olive">
    <filesystem type="cow">/usr/share/vnx/filesystems/root_fs_olive</filesystem>
    <mem>256M</mem>
    <conf>conf/example_olive/r2.conf</conf>
    <if id="1" net="Lan2" name="fxp0">
      <ipv4>10.0.2.1/24</ipv4>
      <ipv6>2001:db8:2::1/64</ipv6>
    </if>
    <if id="2" net="ptp12" name="fxp1">
      <ipv4>10.0.0.2/30</ipv4>
      <ipv6>2001:db8:12::2/64</ipv6>
    </if>
    <if id="3" net="ptp23" name="fxp2">
      <ipv4>10.0.0.5/30</ipv4>
      <ipv6>2001:db8:23::1/64</ipv6>
    </if>
  </vm>

  <vm name="r3" type="libvirt" subtype="kvm" os="olive">
    <filesystem type="cow">/usr/share/vnx/filesystems/root_fs_olive</filesystem>
    <mem>256M</mem>
    <conf>conf/example_olive/r3.conf</conf>
    <if id="1" net="Lan3" name="fxp0">
      <ipv4>10.0.3.1/24</ipv4>
      <ipv6>2001:db8:3::1/64</ipv6>
    </if>
    <if id="2" net="ptp13" name="fxp1">
      <ipv4>10.0.0.10/30</ipv4>
      <ipv6>2001:db8:12::2/64</ipv6>
    </if>
    <if id="3" net="ptp23" name="fxp2">
      <ipv4>10.0.0.6/30</ipv4>
      <ipv6>2001:db8:13::2/64</ipv6>
    </if>
  </vm>

  <vm name="h1" type="libvirt" subtype="kvm" os="linux">
    <filesystem type="cow">/usr/share/vnx/filesystems/root_fs_ubuntu</filesystem>
    <mem>256M</mem>
    <if id="1" net="Lan1">
      <ipv4>10.0.1.2/24</ipv4>
      <ipv6>2001:db8:1::2/64</ipv6>
    </if>
  </vm>

  <vm name="h2" type="libvirt" subtype="kvm" os="linux">
    <filesystem type="cow">/usr/share/vnx/filesystems/root_fs_ubuntu</filesystem>
    <mem>256M</mem>
    <if id="1" net="Lan2">
      <ipv4>10.0.2.2/24</ipv4>
      <ipv6>2001:db8:2::2/64</ipv6>
    </if>
  </vm>

  <vm name="h3" type="libvirt" subtype="kvm" os="linux">
    <filesystem type="cow">/usr/share/vnx/filesystems/root_fs_ubuntu</filesystem>
    <mem>256M</mem>
    <if id="1" net="Lan3">
      <ipv4>10.0.3.2/24</ipv4>
      <ipv6>2001:db8:3::2/64</ipv6>
    </if>
  </vm>

  <host>
    <hostif net="Lan1">
       <ipv4>10.0.1.3/24</ipv4>
       <ipv6>2001:db8:1::3/64</ipv6>
    </hostif>
  </host>
  
</vnx>

Download

The example is included in VNX distribution.

Known issues

  • Network interface problems. Sometimes olive router network interfaces do not work properly. Everything seems to be correctly configured (ifconfig or show configuration results are correct), but pings to other virtual machines do not work or show very long delays:
  • root@h1:~# ping 10.0.3.2
    PING 10.0.3.2 (10.0.3.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
    64 bytes from 10.0.3.2: icmp_req=1 ttl=62 time=48536 ms
    64 bytes from 10.0.3.2: icmp_req=2 ttl=62 time=47537 ms
    64 bytes from 10.0.3.2: icmp_req=3 ttl=62 time=46537 ms
    64 bytes from 10.0.3.2: icmp_req=4 ttl=62 time=45537 ms
    64 bytes from 10.0.3.2: icmp_req=5 ttl=62 time=44537 ms
    64 bytes from 10.0.3.2: icmp_req=6 ttl=62 time=43537 ms
    64 bytes from 10.0.3.2: icmp_req=7 ttl=62 time=42537 ms
    64 bytes from 10.0.3.2: icmp_req=8 ttl=62 time=41537 ms
    64 bytes from 10.0.3.2: icmp_req=9 ttl=62 time=40537 ms
    64 bytes from 10.0.3.2: icmp_req=10 ttl=62 time=39537 ms
    

    Besides, the following messages are shown in the console or when executing dmesg:

    swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 10, size: 4096
    fxp2: device timeout, recovered (A) 
    

    This problem seems to be be caused by timeouts when writting to disk during virtual machine startup. No solution has been found yet to this problem but executing the scenario in a more powerfull machine. Olive routers startup seems to be very CPU intensive.