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OpenDaylight Cookbook

By : Rashmi Pujar, ICARO CAMELO, Yrineu Rodrigues
Book Image

OpenDaylight Cookbook

By: Rashmi Pujar, ICARO CAMELO, Yrineu Rodrigues

Overview of this book

OpenDaylight is an open source platform to program and build Software-Defined Networks (SDN). Its aim is to accelerate the adoption of SDN and NFV. With above 90 practical recipes, this book will help you to solve day-to-day problems and maintenance tasks surrounding OpenDaylight’s implementation. This book starts with the OpenDaylight fundamentals. In this book, you will gain a sound understanding of the methods and techniques when deploying OpenDaylight in production environment. Later on, you will learn to create a Service Chain using SFC. This book will address common problems and day-to-day maintenance tasks with OpenDaylight. We’ll also will teach you how to interact with OpenDaylight APIs and use the necessary tools to simulate networks. You will also explore how to create your own branded OpenDaylight along with authorising and authenticating users using OpenDaylight Identity Manager. By the end of this book, you will have the necessary skills to operate an OpenDaylight SDN environment.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Adding and removing BGP routes to/from the network

This recipe will address how to add IPv4 routes using the BGP RESTful API. As a prerequisite the recipe will guide you through the manual configuration to enable the OpenDaylight controller to accept incoming BGP connections, which essentially means allowing it to behave like a BGP Speaker.

Getting ready

As a prerequisite for this recipe, it is assumed that the RIB is configured and a regular BGP is also configured as described in the first recipe. In order to add IPv4 routes, that is, to populate the application RIB of a BGP peer, we need to configure the BGP speaker and set up an application peer.

BGP Speaker functionality configuration: This functionality can be enabled...