Genius generic network interfaces

Project type: Main

Genius allows any ODL application to use its services to achieve interference-free coexistence with other applications.

It provides the following:

• Modules that provide a common view of the network interfaces of different services
• Interface (logical port) manager
• Allows bindings or registration of multiple services to logical ports or interfaces
• The ability to plug in different types of southbound protocol renderers
• Overlay tunnel manager
• Creating and maintaining overlay tunnels between configured TEPs
• Modules that provide commonly used functions as shared services to avoid duplication of code and waste of resources
• Aliveness monitor
• Tunnel or nexthop aliveness monitoring services
• ID manager
• Generates persistent unique integer IDs
• MD-SAL utils
• Common generic APIs for interaction with MD-SAL