Building an Edge Traffic Controller - Part 2
Practical demo of using the controller to detour traffic from overloaded interfaces
In Part 1 of this series, we ran through the technical details of what it would take to build an edge traffic controller to steer traffic away from overloaded edge links. In this blog, I will try to demonstrate the controller in action by simulating traffic flows using our virtualized topology. We will also look into other real world considerations such as operational monitoring and metrics.
Initial Setup To recap, this is what our topology looks like:
