P4 Lab

Introduction

Welcome to the P4 Lab! We've prepared a set of exercises to help you get started with P4 programming:

1. Week 1: Introduction and Language Basics

• Basic Forwarding
• Basic Tunneling

2. Week 2: P4Runtime and the Control Plane

• P4Runtime

3. Weel 3: Monitoring and Debugging

• Explicit Congestion Notification
• Multi-Hop Route Inspection

4. Week 4: Advanced Behavior and Stateful Packet Processing

• Source Routing
• Firewall

Resources

Presentation slides are available online and in the P4_tutorial.pdf in the p4lab directory.

A P4 Cheat Sheet is also available online and in the p4-cheat-sheet.pdf in the p4lab directory. This contains various examples that you can refer to.

Obtaining required software

You can use the VM that is provided to you on Canvas.

Use the VM as follows:

1. Make sure you have VirtualBox installed.
2. Download the VM from the link on Canvas.
3. Within VirtualBox: File>Import Appliance
4. Follow the steps

The account p4 (password p4) should be logged in when the VM boots up by default, and is the one you are expected to use.