This directory contains a set of tools created for Intel Connectivity Academy Students. mostly keep them in the same directory with minimal hierarchy for the ease of use and installation.
Below are some descriptions.
Usage: sudo ~/tools/ba-labs-set-resolution.sh <x-resolution>x<y-resolution>
This script allows you to set the desired resolution for your Xvnc desktop, since it does not change itself automatically when you resize your browser window. Instead, the image is scaled to fit the window.
We recommend using the full-screen mode for the browser window and set the resolution to the native resolution of your monitor.
You need to do it only once -- the setting is preserved between the VM reboots.
Usage: ~/tools/bfrt_python.sh
This script invokes bfrt_python (obviously, you need to have the user-space
driver process, bf_switchd running), but with a "twist" -- it "sources" the
file bfrt_python.py before switching to the interactive mode.
This allows the developer (who gets in the habit of using this tool) to easily
extend bfrt_python with new commands and utilities. As an example, this file
pulls in (imports) bfrt_clear_all.py that implements clear_all command. This
command safely clears all the tables and it pretty elaborate to implement.
Usage: ~/tools/bfrt_starter.py
This is the minimal script that demonstrates how to connect to a running
BF Runtime gRPC server using bfrt_grpc.client module.
The script itself is not doing much, but you should be easily extend it and create your own Python-based control plane prototypes easily.
Usage: cd $SDE; ~/tools/clean_sde.sh
This simple script removes log files from the SDE root directory so that it looks "clean"
Usage: ~/tools/create_ptf_tests.sh <program_name>
This program creates creates a PTF test template (described in ICA-XFG-101 course) ready to be filled in with the actual content.
These files allow the developers to create (and destroy) dummy network interfaces and properly connect them to the model and PTF tests. Using these interfaces is more efficient compared to Virtual Ethernet (veth) ones and they have fewer bugs. They also have a more consistent naming.
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