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[Alexander Gall <>]

On Tue, 7 Feb 2023 14:04:48 +0100, mc36 <> said:

> hi,
> yess, basically you caught it right imho...
> btw, alex's script somehow failed to pick up the task so there is no 
> precompiled binaries yet...
> we'll keep you posted...

The optimizier has finished and found no difference for the
geant-testbed profile (note that the optimizer uses SDE 9.7.4). So
cc7cfe6a8f3 should be fine to commit to rare-nix.

-- 
Alex

> br,
> cs


> On 2/7/23 12:52, Marcos Felipe Schwarz wrote:
>> Thanks Csaba.
>> 
>> If I understand correctly, this will provide the point2point layer2, but I 
>> won't be able to configure a management IP, right?
>> Anyway it seems fine for now.
>> 
>> Thanks for the update.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Marcos Schwarz
>> 
>> -----Mensagem original-----
>> De: mc36 <>
>> Enviada em: ter  a-feira, 7 de fevereiro de 2023 02:07
>> Para: ; Marcos Felipe Schwarz 
>> <>
>> Assunto: Re: [RARE-users] Request to add BRIDGE to GEANT_TESTBED
>> 
>> hi,
>> 
>> tried to add the full bridging feature, which did not fit to the asic with 
>> the below error message:
>> 
>> running /home/mc36/bf-sde-9.12.0/install/bin/bf-p4c -I. -I../p4src/ 
>> -Xp4c="--disable-parse-depth-limit" -DDUAL_PIPE optimizer1296.p4...
>> optimizer1296.tofino/pipe/optimizer1296.bfa:5550: error: tofino supports 
>> up to 12 stages, using 14
>> optimizer1296.tofino/pipe/optimizer1296.bfa:0: error: Due to errors, no 
>> binary will be generated failed command assembler returning false for 512 
>> and 1024 on profile-geant-testbed
>> *** unable to find a working first value ***
>> 
>> but to provide just a point2point layer2, we have an other thing, which 
>> does not involve bridging, but local cross-connect of two (sub)interfaces: 
>> https://github.com/rare-freertr/freeRtr/blob/master/cfg/p4lang-rout215.tst#L58
>> and the good news is that adding this to the testbed profile compiled fine:
>> 
>> *** working profile generated successfully ***
>> 
>> i'l commit soon this to the bitbucket... then alex's automatism will pick 
>> it up and do the final optimizations for both tofino1 and tofino2, then 
>> we'll get a pull request with the new numbers... after accepting that, 
>> alex's caches will start prebuilding with the new binaries...
>> it should not take more than a day... i'll keep you posted...
>> 
>> br,
>> cs
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 2/6/23 22:30, Marcos Felipe Schwarz wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> There has been more than one occasion where I needed to stitch point to 
>>> point L2 circuit through a GP4L Tofino/FreeRtr device. Which is a service 
>>> commonly used by AutoGOLE/SENSE.
>>> The current profile doesn   t support BRIDGE, so I   d like to request, 
>>> what is the feasebility to add it on the GEANT_TESTBED profile?
>>> 
>>> The idea is to provide different services simultaneously including, 
>>> either:
>>> 1) L3 VPNs supporting Source Based Routing (i.e. using PolKA tunnels 
>>> steared by PBR rules)     Supported currently
>>> 
>>> 2) L2 Point to Point VPN (i.e bridge between two vlan subport including a 
>>> management IP)     Not yet supported
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
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