Overview

This page describes the proposal of SDX use case that concerns the BGP functionality of SDN-IP application.

Association of peers with interfaces

Description

There is the case that multiple peers belong to the same AS and are connected through different connection points to the SDX controlled by ONOS. In this case, the user should be able to explicitly define the connection points to each peer. This is necessary since the identification of the appropriate interface by the application itself is not enough. Overlapping or identical sub-nets may exist in the "ports" section of the network configuration and thus the identification of which connection point should be used for a given peer is not straightforward.

Requirements

The requirement applying to the above feature are the following:

• Different peering sessions can be maintained for the same AS.
• Interfaces towards overlapping and/or identical sub-nets can be defined in the "ports" -> "interfaces" section of network configuration. These interfaces can be used for BGP peering sessions.
• In case that a given peer's IP address matches with two or more interfaces, it shall be recommended that the user should explicitly specify the interface that applies.
• Backwards compatibility shall be kept with existing configuration structure.

• New functionality shall be also supported by add-bgp-peer command.

• Any previous explicit associations of peers with interfaces will be cleaned with remove-bgp-peer command.

Sample configuration

An example of a network configuration being supported by the described feature is the following: network-cfg.json.