Lab 9: Limit the bandwidth

[Environment setup]

h0 ---                      

          |             

         s0  ----  s1 --- h2

          |             

h1 ----               

h0, h1 are connected to switch s0, s0 is connected to s1, and s1 is connected to h2.

Originally, the link bandwidth between s0 and s1 is 10Mbps. h2 is running iperf server and h0, h1 are running iperf client to test performance. After iperf evaluation, the flow from h0 to h2 is limited to 512 kbps.  The iperf program is re-run again.

[mymininet8.py]

#!/usr/bin/python

from mininet.net import Mininet

from mininet.node import Node

from mininet.link import TCLink

from mininet.log import  setLogLevel, info

from threading import Timer

from mininet.util import quietRun

from time import sleep

from mininet.cli import CLI

def myNet(cname='controller', cargs='-v ptcp:'):

    "Create network from scratch using Open vSwitch."

    info( "*** Creating nodes\n" )

    controller = Node( 'c0', inNamespace=False )

    s0 = Node( 's0', inNamespace=False )

    s1 = Node( 's1', inNamespace=False )

    h0 = Node( 'h0' )

    h1 = Node( 'h1' )

    h2 = Node( 'h2' )

    info( "*** Creating links\n" )

    linkopts0=dict(bw=10, delay='1ms', loss=0)

    TCLink( h0, s0, **linkopts0)

    TCLink( h1, s0, **linkopts0)

    TCLink( s0, s1, **linkopts0)

    TCLink( s1, h2, **linkopts0)

    info( "*** Configuring hosts\n" )

    h0.setIP( '192.168.123.1/24' )

    h1.setIP( '192.168.123.2/24' )

    h2.setIP( '192.168.123.3/24' )

    info( "*** Starting network using Open vSwitch\n" )

    s0.cmd( 'ovs-vsctl del-br dp0' )

    s0.cmd( 'ovs-vsctl add-br dp0' )

    s1.cmd( 'ovs-vsctl del-br dp1' )

    s1.cmd( 'ovs-vsctl add-br dp1' )

    controller.cmd( cname + ' ' + cargs + '&' )          

    for intf in s0.intfs.values():

        print intf

        print s0.cmd( 'ovs-vsctl add-port dp0 %s' % intf )

    for intf in s1.intfs.values():

        print intf

        print s1.cmd( 'ovs-vsctl add-port dp1 %s' % intf )

    # Note: controller and switch are in root namespace, and we

    # can connect via loopback interface

    s0.cmd( 'ovs-vsctl set-controller dp0 tcp:127.0.0.1:6633' )

    s1.cmd( 'ovs-vsctl set-controller dp0 tcp:127.0.0.1:6633' )

    info( '*** Waiting for switch to connect to controller' )

    while 'is_connected' not in quietRun( 'ovs-vsctl show' ):

        sleep( 1 )

        info( '.' )

    info( '\n' )

    #print s0.cmd('ovs-ofctl show dp0')

    #info( "*** Running test\n" )

    h0.cmdPrint( 'ping -c 3 ' + h2.IP() )

    h1.cmdPrint( 'ping -c 3 ' + h2.IP() )

    h2.cmd('iperf -s &')

    print "iperf: h0--s0--s1--h2"

    h0.cmdPrint('iperf -c 192.168.123.3 -t 10')

    print "iperf: h1--s0--s1--h2"

    h1.cmdPrint('iperf -c 192.168.123.3 -t 10')

    print "limit the bandwidth for flow h0-h2"

s0.cmdPrint('ethtool -K s0-eth2 gro off')

    s0.cmdPrint('tc qdisc del dev s0-eth2 root')

    s0.cmdPrint('tc qdisc add dev s0-eth2 root handle 1: cbq avpkt 1000 bandwidth 10Mbit')

    s0.cmdPrint('tc class add dev s0-eth2 parent 1: classid 1:1 cbq rate 512kbit allot 1500 prio 5 bounded isolated')

    s0.cmdPrint('tc filter add dev s0-eth2 parent 1: protocol ip prio 16 u32 match ip src 192.168.123.1 flowid 1:1')

    s0.cmdPrint('tc qdisc add dev s0-eth2 parent 1:1 sfq perturb 10')

    h0.cmdPrint('iperf -c 192.168.123.3 -t 10')

    print "iperf: h1--s0--s1--h2" 

    h1.cmdPrint('iperf -c 192.168.123.3 -t 10')

    info( "*** Stopping network\n" )

    controller.cmd( 'kill %' + cname )

    s0.cmd( 'ovs-vsctl del-br dp0' )

    s0.deleteIntfs()

    s1.cmd( 'ovs-vsctl del-br dp1' )

    s1.deleteIntfs()

    info( '\n' )

if __name__ == '__main__':

    global net

    setLogLevel( 'info' )

    info( '*** Scratch network demo (kernel datapath)\n' )

    Mininet.init()

    myNet()

[Running the script]

Dr. Chih-Heng Ke (smallko@gmail.com)

Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering,

National Quemoy University, Kinmen, Taiwan.