I remember hearing that Contrail could be used as a SD-WAN as well, which would suggest that there was a way to use the vrouter in a similar way that the vMX can be used. Is that not the case? Or, is there a way to combine the products?
> On Jan 6, 2017, at 5:51 AM, Michael Henkel <mhen...@juniper.net> wrote: > > Hi Sorin, > > The vRouter typically is used to provide connectivity > - between workloads (VMs/container) on the same or different compute node > - between a external routers and the workload on a compute node > > The vRouter is not meant to be a replacement for a traditional router. > Usually the vRouter routes between overlay networks or between a physical > network and an overlay network. > If you want to use the IXIA for performance testing you can configure it as > an external router and push traffic to workloads hosted on a compute node. > Can you describe your use case? > > Regards, > Michael > > Am 06.01.2017 um 11:12 schrieb Sorin tudor Toderica <stoder...@lenovo.com>: > >> Thank you very much Michael, >> >> I’m trying to understand your suggestion. My intention was to have 2 >> physical nics connected to VRouter as separate ports and use 2 ixia to >> emulate 2 virtual machines that are talking at full rate over those nics. >> When you are talking about a switch, you mean a physical switch or an >> software switch like OVS or linux bridge? >> >> Also does your answer means that the VRouter purpose is only to >> route/switch/filter traffic between local VMs or between local VMs and >> external VMs but cannot be used as a real software router to route traffic >> between external servers/VMs? >> >> Thank you again, >> Sorin. >> >> From: Michael Henkel [mailto:mhen...@juniper.net] >> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2017 11:51 AM >> To: Sorin tudor Toderica; dev@lists.opencontrail.org >> Subject: Re: [opencontrail-dev] how can I add multiple physical nics to >> VRouter in a contrail-installer with devstack setup >> >> Hi Sorin, >> >> This has not changed. The vRouters vhost0 interface is always bound to one >> (logical) interface. The logical interface can be a bond in case more >> bandwidth is needed. >> But you can still use an IXIA to inject traffic, you just need a switch >> which multiplexes the interface. >> >> Regards, >> Michael >> >> From: Dev <dev-boun...@lists.opencontrail.org> on behalf of Sorin tudor >> Toderica <stoder...@lenovo.com> >> Date: Friday, January 6, 2017 at 10:42 AM >> To: "dev@lists.opencontrail.org" <dev@lists.opencontrail.org> >> Subject: [opencontrail-dev] how can I add multiple physical nics to VRouter >> in a contrail-installer with devstack setup >> >> >> Hello folks and Happy New Year to you! >> >> >> I have an open-contrail installation on 2 physical servers – one server >> running all services (control node + compute node) while the second one is >> only running the nova and vrouter agent (compute node). The installation was >> done from contrail-installer using devstack. >> My physical server (control node) has 4 physical nics and I would like to >> use all of them under VRouter control. I would also like to use them not as >> a bond ( port-channel) but as separate nics – to be able to inject traffic >> in VRouter using ixia. >> Looking into the documentation (Contrail user guide from Juniper – >> “Supporting multiple interfaces on Servers and Nodes) there is a way to >> configure this using fabric utility tool. Unfortunately using >> contrail-installer I’m not able to get the contrail debian package used by >> fabric utility to deploy contrail >> (contrail-install-packages-1.xx-xxx~openstack_version_all.deb) >> so those instructions from the user guide are not helping me much. >> >> I was also trying to look first in the mail achieve for a similar topic and >> found an old discouraging thread -> >> >> http://lists.opencontrail.org/pipermail/dev_lists.opencontrail.org/2013-November/000204.html >> >> “There is a single kernel module. It can use multiple NICs. At the moment >> bonding is the only supported way to have multiple data interfaces. >> Virtual interfaces get their own VRFs and are isolated from each other; is >> there any particular scenario that you have in mind and are trying to get to >> test ?” >> >> My hope is that this post is old enough and now this kind of topology is >> supported. For example if I want to turn a server full of nics into a >> software router using contrail and VRouter I will need to be able to let >> VRouter to manage multiple physical nics. >> In my installation I’m using the VRouter kernel module, not the dpdk support. >> >> Thank you very much, >> Sorin. >> > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > Dev@lists.opencontrail.org > http://lists.opencontrail.org/mailman/listinfo/dev_lists.opencontrail.org
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