automatic bringup of the x86 cpu ports

[mc36]

hi,

rare/freertr core devvie here... im writing to you because it would be nice if you can automatically bring up the "x86 control board" 2* 10g ethernet ports connected to the tofino....

its a per platform knowledge in your case also, but, unlike on other platforms like the "reference" edgecore-wedge or the apsn boxes i had some luck to play with, in your case its not automatically brought up...

after bringing up these ports, our router core ( https://github.com/rare-freertr/freeRtr/tree/master/misc/p4bf ) also works fine on my asterfusion 321x and tier0-testnet/hemenet is happily transmitting bgp/mpls heavy payloads through the box.... for your reference, you can take a look at http://inf.nop.hu/ and http://lg.nop.hu/ , and your box is the "core" one.... :)

( my next target will be the 2x dpu-s to stack them to the tofino.... :)

bf-sde> pm show
-----+----+---+----+-------+----+--+--+---+---+---+--------+----------------+----------------+-
PORT |MAC |D_P|P/PT|SPEED |FEC |AN|KR|RDY|ADM|OPR|LPBK |FRAMES RX |FRAMES TX |E
-----+----+---+----+-------+----+--+--+---+---+---+--------+----------------+----------------+-
13/0 |27/0|156|3/28|10G |NONE|Au|Au|YES|ENB|UP | NONE | 2546750| 2515873|
33/2 |32/2| 66|1/66|10G |NONE|En|Au|YES|ENB|UP | NONE | 111880| 120965|
bf-sde>

in the above one i had some luck to off-load some mpls in a router-on-the-stick configuration....

core#show interfaces summary
info userReader.cmdEnter:userReader.java:1227 command core#show interfaces summary from local:telnet 23 -> 127.0.0.1 56072
2023-11-25 10:10:12
interface | state | tx | rx | drop
template1 | up | 224112 | 0 | 0
loopback0 | up | 224034 | 0 | 0
ethernet0 | up | 15868723 | 90358409 | 0
sdn1 | up | 15604022+2875811416 | 90068261+2847245255 | 80444+0
sdn1.147 | up | 555160+8027859 | 486565+676271 | 0+0
sdn1.148 | up | 685968+12523773 | 584117+2034564 | 0+0
sdn1.149 | up | 591621+12491682 | 647891+1823497 | 0+0
sdn1.158 | up | 702184+13400704 | 720004+2554016935 | 0+0
sdn1.159 | up | 778535+12144124 | 450882+3258417 | 0+0
sdn1.160 | up | 1047568+18581553 | 1036872+152668238 | 0+0
sdn1.161 | up | 1239316+18198557 | 1183204+26213106 | 0+0
sdn1.162 | up | 1115751+17404224 | 998492+3752585 | 0+0
sdn1.163 | up | 6187845+166309594 | 79211224+80807218 | 332+0
sdn1.164 | up | 2150489+2583428747 | 4055974+3279744 | 664+0
sdn9 | up | 0+90630090 | 0+17087948 | 0+0

core#
core#show running-config server p4lang p4
info userReader.cmdEnter:userReader.java:1227 command core#show running-config server p4lang p4 from local:telnet 23 -> 127.0.0.1 56072
2023-11-25 10:13:07
server p4lang p4
export-vrf inet
export-port sdn9 66 10 1 2 0
export-port sdn1 156 10 1 0 0
interconnect ethernet0
vrf p4
exit
!

core#

in the above, the sdn9 is what i had to add to have the cpu-port up and running in the tofino level and be able to speak the routing protocols needed to become a part of the networking topology....

sooo long story short, if you can add that extra to have these 2 internal connections brought up, that would be a nice enhancement to align to the other whitebox vendors....

thanks in advance... :)