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Programmable Dataplane Examples

This repository contains examples of P4 programmable network dataplane running inside mininet.

Environment setup

The setup assumes that you are running on an 64-bit Ubuntu 16.04 machine with gcc version 5.

To check gcc version, run gcc --version

To install gcc 5, run

$ sudo apt install g++-5 gcc-5
$ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-5 2 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-5
$ sudo update-alternatives --config gcc

Then select gcc-5 as the default compiler.

Make sure protobuf and thrift are not installed. If they are installed, then uninstall them by entering into their respective source folders and running sudo make uninstall. Verify by running protoc --version and thrift --version; if uninstalled these commands should tell the same.

Next, go through the following steps:

  1. First create a new user called p4 by running the command sudo adduser p4

  2. Next, run sudo visudo and add the entry p4 ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL inside the file and exit.

  3. Log in as the user p4 and copy the files environment/root-bootstrap.sh and environment/user-bootstrap.sh into your home folder /home/p4/

  4. Go inside your home folder /home/p4/ and run

$ sudo ./root-bootstrap.sh
$ ./user-bootstrap.sh