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OpenDaylight Cookbook

By : Rashmi Pujar, ICARO CAMELO, Yrineu Rodrigues
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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)

Enabling TCP MD5 authentication for secure BGP and PCEP connectivity

By default, TCP MD5 authentication is disabled for BGP and PCEP implementation in OpenDaylight. This configuration is very useful to secure a BGP connection. It can be enabled manually or by using RESTCONF. In the following recipe we will describe the manual way of configuring these attributes.

Getting ready

As a prerequisite, make sure that BGP and PCEP are configured as described in the first recipe. Additionally, to allow TCP MD5 authentication between BGP peers, the router also needs to be configured accordingly. This is however beyond the scope of this recipe.

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