In the p4-tutorials tutorial, all control planes are configured using json files. I was browsing through the youtube course and noticed that the video publisher can use txt files to configure directly, how can I modify my utils tool to enable the configuration of the action match table directly through txt files?
Hi,
The txt file is, as far as I can remember, the way that rules were installed in the beginning. Then they switched to the json files. However, I remember I still used .txt files for some rules.
I think I modified the topology.json (you can find them in the topo folders) file to include them as this:
{
"hosts": [
"h1",
"h2",
"h3",
"h4"
],
"switches": {
"s1": {
"cli_input" : "s1-commands.txt",
"runtime_json" : "s1-runtime.json"
},
"s2": {
"cli_input" : "s2-commands.txt",
"runtime_json" : "s2-runtime.json"
},
"s3": {
"cli_input" : "s3-commands.txt",
"runtime_json" : "s3-runtime.json"
}
},
. . .
}
I was not sure if I implemented it or it was already there. Searching Github shows that this was already there, see:
So you can add your own .txt file and try it out. The syntax could be similar to this one:
mirroring_add 500 2
table_add IngressImpl.int_ingress.tb_set_first_hop IngressImpl.int_ingress.int_set_first_hop 5 0
Hope it works for you,
It is very useful to me. Thank you.
