Nokia SR Linux and Cisco XRd

Description#

A lab consists of an SR Linux node connected with Cisco XRd via a point-to-point ethernet link. Both nodes are also connected with their management interfaces to the containerlab docker network.

Use cases#

This lab allows users to launch basic interoperability scenarios between Nokia SR Linux and Cisco XRd operating systems.

Configuration#

Both SR Linux and XRd nodes come with a startup config files referenced for them. These user-defined startup files introduce the following change on top of the default config that these nodes boot with:

• On SR Linux, interface ethernet-1/1 is configured with 192.168.0.0/31 address and this interface attached to the default network instance.
• On XRd, interface Gi 0/0/0/0 is configured with 192.168.0.1/31 address.

Verification#

When the deployment of the lab finishes, users can validate that the datapath works between the nodes by pinging the directly connected interfaces from either node.

Here is an example from SR Linux side:

--{ running }--[  ]--
A:srl# ping network-instance default 192.168.0.1 
Using network instance default
PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=12.0 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=6.83 ms
^C
--- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 6.830/9.428/12.027/2.600 ms