P4 DDoS Defense

Prerequisites

• linux environment for the scripts
• docker for compiling P4 and data plane
• p4c docker image for compiling P4
• p4runtime-shell for control plane
• nc: optional for logging, apt install netcat-openbsd

See environment/README.md for more.

Compile P4

cd p4
make

Start data plane

cd experiments/02-slow-ddos
mn --custom mn_custom.py --topo ccsa-2s

Start control plane

Show logging message in the same terminal:

cd experiments/02-slow-ddos
./10_p4_control.py --topo topos/ccsa-2s.json each -s 2 -l -a

To show log in a separate terminal, use the following commands:

# window 1
nc -klvp 3000

# window 2
./10_p4_control.py --log tcp:localhost:3000 --topo topos/ccsa-2s.json each -s 2 -l -a

Start attack simulation

Try 20-xxx scripts.