The Hello GPE World Tutorial

SPP Interfaces

• Ping an SPP interface from an arbitrary host
  • Why you probably won't get a response
• SPP interfaces have Internet2 IP addresses
• SSH to a PlanetLab host
• Ping an SPP interface from the PlanetLab host

Getting Information About Interfaces and Peers

• The scfg utility
• scfg --cmd get_ifaces
• scfg --cmd get_peer

Constructing a Tunnel Map

• Use the output of get_ifaces and get_peer

Making a Resource Reservation

• scfg --cmd make_reservation and the reservation file
• Other reservation commands

Creating a Slowpath (GPE) Endpoint

• scfg --cmd alloc_plspec
• scfg --cmd alloc_endpoint