What's Lagopus switch and router?
Lagopus switch is a high-performance software OpenFlow 1.3 switch.
Lagopus router is a high-performance software router.
Lagopus is a genus of bird in the grouse subfamily.
Lagopus lives in cloud.
Features
- Lagopus switch
- Best OpenFlow 1.3 compliant switch
- OpenFlow Switch Specification 1.3.4
- High performance software data plane with DPDK
- Lagopus router
- Multiple VRF
- VLAN switching
- DPDK support
- Still beta release
Code
Latest code is hosted at GitHub.
Documents
Roadmap
(To be updated)
Our developement team is working on the next major version up of Lagopus virtual router with programmable API (This documents are written in Japanese).
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Version 0.2.12 (current)
- Pure OpenFlow switch 1.3.4 specification
- General tunnel encap/decap extension
- High-performance dataplane with DPDK
- Mixed configuration of raw-socket port and DPDK port in dataplane
- Single-line-based switch configuration datastore
- CLI (lagosh) with new configuration format
- Queue support (WRR)
- New flow lookup algorithm
- jumbo frame support
- Linux & FreeBSD with DPDK library support
- Limited support of controller-less L2, L3 support (Learning switch, ICMP, APR, static route)
- QEMU/KVM and virtual switch configuration support
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Version 1.0 (2017 Q2)
- VRF-enabled routing
- VLAN-enabled bridging
- Routing stack integration (GOBGP, Zebra 2.0)
- High availability protocols (VRRP v3)
- High availability protocols (VRRP v3)
- Support of YANG-model
- Management protocol support (SNMP, SNMP trap)
- Overlay-networking/tunnles (IPsec)
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Version 1.1 (2017 Q3)
- NAT
- xFlow support
- overlay networking with VxLAN and EVPN-extension
- Telemetry function with (user-defined packet generation/monitor
Contributions
We always welcome contributions to Lagopus switch.
- Submit bugfixes and improvements by pull-request on GitHub.
- Submit bugreport by GitHub Issues.
Community
Join to the Lagopus switch community! Any question and comments are welcome!
Hands-on Seminar
(To be updated)
Hands-on material can be downloaded from here. You can download VM image for handson from OneDrive.
- Lagopus Day #1 Tokyo, August 30th 2014 (Finished)
- Lagopus Day #2 Yokohama, September 27th 2014 (Finished)
- Lagopus BoF @ InternetWeek 2014, November 18th 2014 (Finished)
- Lagopus Handson @ Okinawa Open Days 2014, December 11th 2014 (Finished)
- Lagopus Day #3 Osaka, December 19th 2014 (Finished)
- Lagopus Day #6 Iwate, April 24th 2015 (Finished)
- Lagopus Day #7 Fukuoka, October 4th 2015 (Finished)
- Lagopus Handson @ Okinawa Open Days 2015, December 15th 2015 (Finished)
- Lagopus Day #8 Fukuoka, March 14th 2016 (Coming soon!!!)
Publication
(To be updated)
- DPDK summit 2015: It's kind of fun to do the impossible with DPDK. DPDK Summit 2015, August 2015.
- High-performance software packet processing techniques with Intel x86 server. (in Japanese) SDN Japan 2014, November 2014.
- High-performance vSwitch of the user, by the user, for the user. DPDK Summit 2014, September 2014.
- Scalable, High-performance, Elastic Software OpenFlow Switch in Userspace for Wide-area Network. Open Networking Summit 2014, March 2014.
Acknowledgments
This study is a part of the O3 project supported by a grant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in Japan.