Containerlab is a tool for provisioning networking labs built with containers. It is free. Before we begin, The following requirements must be satisfied to let containerlab tool run successfully: first we need install docker, in this case we use ubuntu 24.04 Remove all old version of docker Set up Docker’s apt Repository Install docker Verify […]
Category: Networking
6wind Ansible NETCONF Automation
Ansible supports configuring remote hosts using NETCONF (instead of the default SSH connection along with Linux shell commands). This guide explains how to leverage Ansible to configure multiple Virtual Service Router instances. Dependencies This guide assumes that you have two (or more) Virtual Service Router instances that are booted and accessible on the network (NETCONF […]
Mellanox Connect x4 SRIOV Ubuntu 22.04
SRIOV-CNI support Mellanox ConnectX®-4 Lx and ConnectX®-5 adapter cards. To enable SR-IOV functionality the following steps are required:1.Verify that the system has a Mellanox network adapter (HCA/NIC) installed. 1- Enable SR-IOV in the NIC’s Firmware. Installing Mellanox Management Tools (MFT) or mstflint is a pre-requisite, MFT can be downloaded from http://www.mellanox.com/page/management_tools Download the mft package […]
Iperf3 Multisession Test
iperf3 process is single-threaded. This means all the parallel streams for one test use the same CPU core. To run multiple iperf3 processes for a testing a high-speed host, do the following: Start Multiple Session on iperf3 Server Run multiple clients, using the “-T” flag to label the output: