Packet Broker Overview

on top of Sonic NOS (AsterNOS).

web: for visual triage scenarios, targeted abstraction on the web, the user can clearly according to the input, rules, output logic to complete the entire configuration of the issuance of the acl rules for the creation of the corresponding business groups, the ability to annotate the entire business group and adjust the priority for the convenience of the user to carry out the management. web using the REST API to call the npbd.

npbd: parses the REST APIs sent by the web and breaks them down into different Sonic APIs and sends them to Npbsyncd.

npbsyncd: modifies the database using the Sonic API. Other modules subscribe to the database changes and then complete the related functionality.