SONiC Support

The Flock Networks Routing Suite can act as the IP Routing control plane for the SONiC Network Operating System. SONiC uses the forwarding plane manager (FPM) to program fpmsyncd. fpmsyncd then sends the routing updates into the SONiC APPL_DB database.

To program fpmsyncd the system configuration file /etc/flockd/system.toml requires these two lines of configuration.

[fpm]
tcp_port = 2620

Then check FPM is enabled by using the REST API.

$ flockc system | grep fpm_state
"fpm_state": "enabled"
$

NB: The default IP Routing suite shipped with SONiC will need to be disabled, or it will conflict with the Flock Networks IP Routing Suite.

Debugging SONiC

An overview of the SONiC routing-state interactions is here.

Check the fpmsyncd logs for a successful connection from the Flock Networks IP Routing Suite.

# grep "fpmsyncd Connected" /var/log/messages
2020-08-25T08:44:49.707069+00:00 ad2e7e7845ad supervisord: fpmsyncd Connected!

Check the ASIC's have been programmed

The entries below match this SONiC P4 example.

host1 (Ubuntu, 192.168.1.2/24) <--> switch1 (SONiC) <--> switch2 (SONiC) <--> host2 (Ubuntu, 192.168.2.2/24)

Use the SONiC saidump utility to show the programmed ASIC entries. Below are shown the entries used to forward to the remote BGP subnet 192.168.2.0/24.

switch1$ saidump

# Remote BGP subnet
SAI_OBJECT_TYPE_ROUTE_ENTRY {"dest":"192.168.2.0/24","switch_id":"oid:0x21000000000000","vr":"oid:0x3000000000066"}
    SAI_ROUTE_ENTRY_ATTR_NEXT_HOP_ID : oid:0x400000000009c

# Which uses this nexthop
SAI_OBJECT_TYPE_NEXT_HOP oid:0x400000000009c
    SAI_NEXT_HOP_ATTR_IP                  : 10.0.0.1
    SAI_NEXT_HOP_ATTR_ROUTER_INTERFACE_ID : oid:0x6000000000095
    SAI_NEXT_HOP_ATTR_TYPE                : SAI_NEXT_HOP_TYPE_IP

# Which is out of this interface
SAI_OBJECT_TYPE_ROUTER_INTERFACE oid:0x6000000000095
    SAI_ROUTER_INTERFACE_ATTR_SRC_MAC_ADDRESS   : 00:01:04:4C:49:F5
    SAI_ROUTER_INTERFACE_ATTR_TYPE              : SAI_ROUTER_INTERFACE_TYPE_VLAN
    SAI_ROUTER_INTERFACE_ATTR_VIRTUAL_ROUTER_ID : oid:0x3000000000066
    SAI_ROUTER_INTERFACE_ATTR_VLAN_ID           : oid:0x2600000000008f