ixia-c-one

ixia-c-one is a re-packaged (as a single-container) flavor of multi-container application ixia-c.
This repository hosts bare minimum artifacts (configurations and tests) to get started with containerlab and ixia-c-one.

Prerequisites

• x86-64 Ubuntu 20.04 Server
• At least 2 CPU cores, 4GB RAM and 64GB HDD
• Docker (https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/)
• Go 1.17+ (https://go.dev/doc/install)
• curl

Get Started

• Clone this repository

  git clone https://github.com/open-traffic-generator/ixia-c-one.git && cd ixia-c-one

• Get containerlab with newly introduced support for ixia-c-one plugin

  curl -kLO https://github.com/open-traffic-generator/ixia-c-one/releases/download/v0.0.1-2610/containerlab
  chmod +x containerlab

• Create Topology

  sudo ./containerlab deploy --topo ixia-c-one-ceos.clab.yaml

  If this step fails, most probably you do not have the ceos docker image. Please obtain the image from https://www.arista.com/en/support/software-download and re-tag it as specified in .yaml.

• Run Tests

  # all tests, test configs and helpers are kept inside this directory
  cd tests
  # modify hostnames of ixia-c-one (otg) or ceos (dut) if there was a change in .clab.yaml
  vi const.go
  
  # Modify contents of test contents for L2 forwarding test with DUT acting as a switch if needed
  # and note the name of Test* function.
  vi l2_traffic_test.go
  # Run the test using the name noted above. 
  go test -run=TestL2Traffic -v | tee out.log
  
  # Modify test contents of L3 forwarding test with DUT acting as BGP router if needed and note the
  # name of Test* function
  vi bgp_route_install_test.go
  # Run the test using the name noted above
  go test -run TestBGPRouteInstall

• Destroy Topology

  sudo ./containerlab destroy --topo ixia-c-one-ceos.clab.yaml