ML2 Plugin

networking-onos provides a shim layer between ONOS and Neutron’s ML2 framework to realize neutron’s layer 2 network in ONOS. This shim layer makes the communication between ONOS and networking-sfc possible via ReST calls.

Mode of Working

The networking-onos project provides a thin layer which makes the communication between ONOS and OpenStack neutron possible via ReST call.

Usage

To use networking-onos ML2 Plugin functionality, one should

  1. Install networking-onos.

  2. Configure ONOS as the required ML2 “mechanism_drivers” in “ml2_conf.ini”:

    mechanism_drivers=onos_ml2

  3. Configure ONOS credentials in networking_onos/etc/conf_onos.ini.

  4. Start neutron server mentioning networking_onos/etc/conf_onos.ini as one of the config-file.