Building OF-DPA Example Applications

The following small applications are provided along with OF-DPA that invoke OF-DPA APIs via RPC.

• client_acl: installs entries in the Policy ACL Flow Table
• client_bridging: installs entries in the Bridging Flow Table.
• client_debugcomp: enables/disables component debugging mode. Refer to ofdpaDebugComponentSet() and ofdpaDebugComponentGet()
• client_debuglvl: sets OF-DPA debug verbosity. Refer ofdpaDebugLvl() and ofdpaDebugLvlGet()
• client_event: sample program to receive events from OF-DPA
• client_flowtable_dump: prints flow table entries
• client_pkt_txrx: sample program to receive and transmit packets from and to OF-DPA
• client_port: configures and gets port configuration
• client_routing: installs entries in the Unicast Routing Flow Table and the Multicast Routing Flow Table
• client_srcmac_learn: enables, disables Source MAC learning mode of OF-DPA
• client_termmac: installs entries in the Termination MAC Flow Table
• client_vlan: installs entries in the VLAN Flow Table
• client_group: creates action Groups
• client_tunnel_tenant: creates a tenant
• client_tunnel_ecmp_nexthop: creates a Tunnel ECMP next hop group
• client_tunnel_ecmp_nexthop_member: adds Tunnel ECMP next hop group members
• client_tunnel_nexthop: creates Tunnel next hop
• client_tunnel_port: creates Tunnel logical ports
• client_tunnel_port_tenant: adds the tunnel logical ports to a tenant
• client_cfg_purge: purges entries from all the flow tables and groups
• client_ingress_port: adds an ingress port flow

Building the Example Programs

The example applications may be built using following command.

  #make client

This command must be issued in the directory ofdpa/output/<platform>.