OpenFlow Tap Aggregation Part 2 : Multiple Source / Destinations

In the last post, we covered configuring a Pica8 3922 as a One-to-Many port replicator.

For this post, we will not repeat the initial setup steps, just the extra details.

Here is a design where we take four ports and bridge them and then mirror the resulting traffic out four more ports.

OpenFlowBridge

# Add Bridge br20 - for TAP Span - 1st Port
#######################################################################################
# Bridged : te-1/1/21, te-1/1/22, te-1/1/23, te-1/1/24
# Output : te-1/1/25, te-1/1/26, te-1/1/27, te-1/1/28
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$VSCTL add-br br20 -- set bridge br20 datapath_type=pica8 other-config=datapath-id=120
$VSCTL add-port br20 te-1/1/21 -- set interface te-1/1/21 type=pica8
$VSCTL add-port br20 te-1/1/22 -- set interface te-1/1/22 type=pica8
$VSCTL add-port br20 te-1/1/23 -- set interface te-1/1/23 type=pica8
$VSCTL add-port br20 te-1/1/24 -- set interface te-1/1/24 type=pica8
$VSCTL add-port br20 te-1/1/25 -- set interface te-1/1/25 type=pica8
$VSCTL add-port br20 te-1/1/26 -- set interface te-1/1/26 type=pica8
$VSCTL add-port br20 te-1/1/27 -- set interface te-1/1/27 type=pica8
$VSCTL add-port br20 te-1/1/28 -- set interface te-1/1/28 type=pica8
# Remove Default Flow (not treating this as HUB!)
ovs-ofctl del-flows br20
# Add replication flow from each bridged port to each of the other ports in the group
ovs-ofctl add-flow br20 in_port=21,dl_dst="*",dl_src="*",dl_type="*",dl_vlan_pcp="*",dl_vlan="*",actions=output:22,23,24,25,26,27,28
ovs-ofctl add-flow br20 in_port=22,dl_dst="*",dl_src="*",dl_type="*",dl_vlan_pcp="*",dl_vlan="*",actions=output:21,23,24,25,26,27,28
ovs-ofctl add-flow br20 in_port=23,dl_dst="*",dl_src="*",dl_type="*",dl_vlan_pcp="*",dl_vlan="*",actions=output:21,22,24,25,26,27,28
ovs-ofctl add-flow br20 in_port=24,dl_dst="*",dl_src="*",dl_type="*",dl_vlan_pcp="*",dl_vlan="*",actions=output:21,22,23,25,26,27,28
# Drop ingress traffic from mirror ports
ovs-ofctl add-flow br20 in_port=25,dl_dst="*",dl_src="*",dl_type="*",dl_vlan_pcp="*",dl_vlan="*",actions=drop
ovs-ofctl add-flow br20 in_port=26,dl_dst="*",dl_src="*",dl_type="*",dl_vlan_pcp="*",dl_vlan="*",actions=drop
ovs-ofctl add-flow br20 in_port=27,dl_dst="*",dl_src="*",dl_type="*",dl_vlan_pcp="*",dl_vlan="*",actions=drop
ovs-ofctl add-flow br20 in_port=28,dl_dst="*",dl_src="*",dl_type="*",dl_vlan_pcp="*",dl_vlan="*",actions=drop

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Founder and Chief Analyst at Router Analysis, Steven has over 20+ years of experience designing and running large networks. Since 1996 he has been heavily involved in writing and executing test plans for networking devices. His professional experience includes CTO of Sideband Networks (Current), VP of Technology at XDN Inc, Technical Leader at Cisco and Procket Networks and Fellow - Network Architecture at Exodus Communications.

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