Re:_Anyone_have_a_copy_of_the_work_that_Joyent_did_o n_FreeBSD_“VPC”_software_defined_networking?

Perhaps this?
https://github.com/joyent/freebsd-vpc

Mark

On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 6:03 AM Philip M. Gollucci <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com>
wrote:

> I may be able to get ahold of Brian Cantrill.  He's likely the best PoC
> too.
>
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 2:49 AM Erik N <erik@nstr.no> wrote:
>
>> I was watching this presentation from BSDCan 2018, by Sean Chittenden,
>> titled “Introducing FreeBSD VPC”.
>>
>> The video recording of said presentation is at
>> https://youtu.be/La4ekkKbM5o and slides are at
>> https://papers.freebsd.org/2018/chittenden-freebsd_vpc.files/chittenden-freebsd_vpc-slides.pdf
>>
>> The presentation details enhancements to FreeBSD, to allow efficient
>> private networking between bhyve guests as well as jails on overlay
>> networks, running across separate FreeBSD hosts. This, according to the
>> presentation, comes in the form of a suite of VXLAN-related network
>> interfaces.
>>
>> From two of the slides:
>>
>> vpc(4) Interfaces
>> vpcsw(4) - switches packets - one packet per customer, multiple subnets
>> supported in the same switch
>> vmnic(4) - dedicated guest NIC, looks like a virtio network device to
>> guests
>> vpcp(4) - plugs vmnic(4) ports into vpcsw(4) switches vpci(4) -
>> Non-bhyve(4) interface, usable in jails(2)
>> ethlink(4) - Performs unencapsulated packet forwarding, wraps a cloned or
>> physical ethernet interface
>> vpclink(4) - Performs VXLAN encapsulation
>>
>> New System Calls
>> vpc_open(2) - Creates a new VPC descriptor vpc_ctl(2) - Manipulates VPC
>> descriptors Capsicum-like, intended for privilege separation Intended for
>> idempotent tooling
>> Makes aggressive use of UUIDs as operator handles to be compatible with
>> Triton
>>
>> At the very end of the presentation slides are links to for kernel code
>> and kernel library code on GitHub:
>>
>> https://github.com/joyent/freebsd/tree/projects/VPC
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/joyent/freebsd/tree/projects/VPC/libexec/go/src/go.freebsd.org/sys/vpc
>>
>> Unfortunately, the whole repository on GitHub is gone. 404. And I
>> couldn’t find any forks of it either.
>>
>> Does anyone have a copy of the VPC branch that Joyent had in that
>> repository?
>>
>> All that seems to be left of the project on Joyent's GitHub is a
>> separate, archived repository https://github.com/joyent/freebsd-vpc that
>> only has code for a utility that would interact with the code from the
>> aforementioned now gone repository.
>>
>> Erik N.
>>
>
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