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Task #6557: Rebuild the whole DCL infrastructure - aka place9

Setup the arista switches at place6-east and place9

Added by Nico Schottelius almost 5 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
ll nu
Target version:
-
Start date:
04/16/2019
Due date:
% Done:

0%

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Description

by serial console

  • update switches to latest EOS that we have
  • Setup default passwords
  • Connect to existing switches, understand the existing mlag configuration
    • show running
  • Setup mlag on new switches switch: switch5, switch6
    • find out whether mlag / ipv6 works
    • not sure if the mlag vlan needs to be unique (??)
  • Setup hostnames (switchX-placeY)
  • Checkout that switch config is clean / empty

Connect / configure place9 switches

  • with mlag
  • test that it works between your switches

Add IPv6 addresses to switches

  • Use the transfer network
  • Checkout [[datacentelight:Networking]]

connecting to existing switches

  • Connect high numbered ports from switch5 and switch6 to high numbered ports on switch1/switch2
    • Ping nico at this stage
  • Create a port-channel with mlag over two switches connecting to switch3/switch4
  • Place that port-channel intro trunk mode
  • port channel number = first interface number in the port channel
    • i.e. ethernet 51/52 -> port-channel 51
  • Containing 4 ports (2 per switch)
  • switch3/4 will be configured by Nico (=the other side)

hints

  • switch2-place6#show lacp neighbor
Actions #1

Updated by Samuel Hailu almost 5 years ago

* Fiber cable is in Port-33 in both sides

Actions #2

Updated by Nico Schottelius almost 5 years ago

Which switch on provider (=dcl old) side?

Actions #3

Updated by Samuel Hailu almost 5 years ago

  • Correction Switch-1 Port-39 switch-1
Actions #4

Updated by Nico Schottelius almost 5 years ago

Note: switch1, port33 is a 1gbit trunk port -> seems not to be the right one!

Actions #5

Updated by Samuel Hailu almost 5 years ago

How to Arista
  • first reset the used Arista switch
  • Set up username and password
     *To be Done* 
  • Set up the default route and the default gateway address
     (config)#ipv6 route ::/0 2a0a:e5c0:1:7::7 
  • enable ipv6 all interfaces i.e(all interfaces are in vlan-1 by defaut)
    (config)#interface vlan 1

     (config-v1)#ipv6 enable
  • check if the what is active
     (config-if-Vl1)#show active 
  • if it works we will see this
     interface Vlan1
       ipv6 enable 
Actions #6

Updated by Nico Schottelius almost 5 years ago

Port 39 in switch1 is not connected:

Et39                      notconnect   1        full   10G    Not Present       
Actions #7

Updated by Nico Schottelius almost 5 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed
  • It's reachable via IPv6, static route
Actions #8

Updated by Nico Schottelius almost 5 years ago

  • Status changed from Closed to In Progress

Please document how you updated the switch

Actions #9

Updated by Samuel Hailu almost 5 years ago

Setting up Switch in Place 9

  • So this is how it looks like from the beginning. * Frist we got the fibre-cable(up-stream) from the ISP (Nico), and we connected the fiber cable to our Arista switch (switch-1) in our side.
  • Reseting the switch to factory default.
    • press
      ctl-c
      when the Arista is booting.
  • once you pressed that you will be in the
    Aboot
    mode.
  • Type
    fullrecover
    and press Enter to revert /mnt/flash to factory default
    state, or just press Enter to reboot: fullrecover. * At this point the Arista will be set to factory default
  • Upgrading Arista
  • getting ready a usb stick with fat32 format and coping the file into the stick
    /dev/sdb1      40   409639   409600  200M EFI System
    /dev/sdb2  411648 30238719 29827072 14.2G Microsoft basic data
    root@line:~# mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/
    FUSE exfat 1.3.0
    WARN: volume was not unmounted cleanly.
    root@line:~# umount /mnt 
    root@line:~# fdisk /dev/sdb
    
    Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.32.1).
    Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
    Be careful before using the write command.
    
    Command (m for help): m
    
    Help:
    
      GPT
       M   enter protective/hybrid MBR
    
      Generic
       d   delete a partition
       F   list free unpartitioned space
       l   list known partition types
       n   add a new partition
       p   print the partition table
       t   change a partition type
       v   verify the partition table
       i   print information about a partition
    
      Misc
       m   print this menu
       x   extra functionality (experts only)
    
      Script
       I   load disk layout from sfdisk script file
       O   dump disk layout to sfdisk script file
    
      Save & Exit
       w   write table to disk and exit
       q   quit without saving changes
    
      Create a new label
       g   create a new empty GPT partition table
       G   create a new empty SGI (IRIX) partition table
       o   create a new empty DOS partition table
       s   create a new empty Sun partition table
    
    Command (m for help): o
    Created a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0xf9f75383.
    The old gpt signature will be removed by a write command.
    
    Command (m for help): n
    Partition type
       p   primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)
       e   extended (container for logical partitions)
    Select (default p): p
    Partition number (1-4, default 1): 
    First sector (2048-30240767, default 2048): 
    Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G,T,P} (2048-30240767, default 30240767): 
    
    Created a new partition 1 of type 'Linux' and of size 14.4 GiB.
    
    Command (m for help): w
    The partition table has been altered.
    Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
    Syncing disks.
    
    root@line:~# mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/sdb1 
    mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24
    
    
  • * plug it into the switch and run the following commands
    switch1#copy usb1:/EOS-2GB-4.18.6M.swi flash:
    switch1#configure 
    switch1(config)#boot system flash:/EOS-2GB-4.18.6M.swi 
    
  • finally reboot the arista
  • Adding username and password
  • The initial configuration provides one username, admin, that is not assigned a password.but we can set up a password to the default admin username.
    •  switch(config)#username admin secret <pasword-here> 
  • Next steps are to set up the default route
  •  (config)#ipv6 route ::/0 2a0a:e5c0:1:7::7 
  • enable ipv6 all interfaces i.e(all interfaces are in vlan-1 by defaut)
(config)#interface vlan 1
 (config-v1)#ipv6 enable
  • check if the what is active
     (config-if-Vl1)#show active 
  • if it works we will see this
     interface Vlan1 ipv6 enable 
  • configuring ipv6 end point or default static ip address
     ipv6 route 2a0a:e5c0:1:7:18 vlan 1 
Actions #10

Updated by Nico Schottelius almost 5 years ago

Nice!

writes:

Actions #11

Updated by Nico Schottelius over 4 years ago

  • Subject changed from Setup the first arista switch to Setup the first arista switches
  • Description updated (diff)
  • Assignee changed from Samuel Hailu to ll nu
Actions #12

Updated by Nico Schottelius over 4 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)
Actions #13

Updated by Nico Schottelius over 4 years ago

Suffixes are in [[datacenterlight:Networking]]

Actions #14

Updated by Nico Schottelius over 4 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)
Actions #15

Updated by Nico Schottelius over 4 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)

domain-id place9-east

Actions #16

Updated by Nico Schottelius over 4 years ago

kraftwerk:

  • switch3
    • Et32 connected in Po31 full 10G 10GBASE-SRL
    • goes to switch5.place6 ET52
  • switch4
    • Et32 connected in Po31 full 10G 10GBASE-SRL
    • goes to switch5.place6 ET51
  • switch3
    • Et31 connected in Po31 full 10G 10GBASE-SR
    • goes to switch6.place6 ET52

... all 4 up!

Actions #17

Updated by ll nu over 4 years ago

Im trying to create a redundant sfp connection from mikrotik to 2 aristas. First i assumed that the port-channel is propagated through mlag and 2 physically seperate interfaces will bond (in practice i named the two ethernet ports with the same port-channel number), but ive read some docs and port-channel can only bond ports on one physical switch. Since mlag is already active I assuming bonding the two mikrotik sfp ports and connecting it to 2 arista switches is enough. First test worked (crs all ports and sfpbond in bridge, arista port17-s confed to tag with vlan 15, arista interface conf: (#interface ethernet 17, #switchport access vlan 15) on both) unplugging one sfp caused few second outage, got ip-s from coworking.
Then I realized I only need 1 port for vlan tagging in crs for wlan.
Now on both aristas both port17 in #switchport mode trunk
crs confed as
ether24 and sfpplus1 in bridge
interface bridge port add pvid=15 interface=ether24 bridge=bridge
bridge=bridge vlan-ids=15 tagged=sfp-sfpplus1
untagged=ether24 current-tagged=sfp-sfpplus1
current-untagged=ether24
interface bridge set bridge vlan-filtering=yes

Actions #18

Updated by Nico Schottelius over 4 years ago

Adding bgp routing to switch5.place6


switch5-place6#configure 
switch5-place6(config)#router bgp 209898
! IP routing not enabled
switch5-place6(config-router-bgp)# router-id 0.0.0.25
switch5-place6(config-router-bgp)#bgp default ipv6-unicast
switch5-place6(config-router-bgp)#maximum-paths 4
switch5-place6(config-router-bgp)#   bgp listen range 2a0a:e5c0:1:8::/64 peer-group ungleich remote-as 209898
switch5-place6(config-router-bgp)#   neighbor ungleich peer-group
switch5-place6(config-router-bgp)#   neighbor ungleich maximum-routes 12000 
switch5-place6(config-router-bgp)#exit
switch5-place6(config)#ip routing
switch5-place6(config)#ipv6 unicast-routing
switch5-place6(config)#write 

Actions #19

Updated by Nico Schottelius over 4 years ago

hints for mikrotik:

  • delete the port-channel
  • et17: switchport mode trunk
  • et17 NO channel-group
Actions #20

Updated by ll nu over 4 years ago

  • Subject changed from Setup the first arista switches to Setup the arista switches place6-east and place9
  • Status changed from In Progress to Waiting

place9:

add switches to DNS
add BGP configuration for new switches (with a PR in dot-cdist)
  • Write wiki for current place6/9 setup
Actions #21

Updated by ll nu over 4 years ago

  • Subject changed from Setup the arista switches place6-east and place9 to Setup the arista switches at place6-east and place9
Actions #22

Updated by ll nu over 4 years ago

  • Status changed from Waiting to Closed
Actions #23

Updated by ll nu over 4 years ago

place9 is no more/ partially moved to place10

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