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| author |   Tibor Frank <tifrank@cisco.com> | 2019-02-05 10:20:41 +0100 |
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| committer | Tibor Frank <tifrank@cisco.com> | 2019-02-05 13:30:25 +0000 |
| commit | 124101d22151239b0411a73ae4d2bf8d70970937 (patch) | |
| tree | 3910b6e04d4737cbfc3295a25f86e7aaa3050d6a /docs/report/introduction/methodology_tunnel_encapsulations.rst | |
| parent | a221ffe6144eb0f372521fbbc828b8a225af12cd (diff) | |
CSIT-1420: Split methodology section to more files
Change-Id: I861e578434abdf72244d684fca8cfd66e1db9c28
Signed-off-by: Tibor Frank <tifrank@cisco.com>
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diff --git a/docs/report/introduction/methodology_tunnel_encapsulations.rst b/docs/report/introduction/methodology_tunnel_encapsulations.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6c47d1bd33 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/report/introduction/methodology_tunnel_encapsulations.rst @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +Tunnel Encapsulations +--------------------- + +Tunnel encapsulations testing is grouped based on the type of outer +header: IPv4 or IPv6. + +IPv4 Tunnels +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +VPP is tested in the following IPv4 tunnel baseline configurations: + +- *ip4vxlan-l2bdbase*: VXLAN over IPv4 tunnels with L2 bridge-domain MAC + switching. +- *ip4vxlan-l2xcbase*: VXLAN over IPv4 tunnels with L2 cross-connect. +- *ip4lispip4-ip4base*: LISP over IPv4 tunnels with IPv4 routing. +- *ip4lispip6-ip6base*: LISP over IPv4 tunnels with IPv6 routing. + +In all cases listed above low number of MAC, IPv4, IPv6 flows (253 per +direction) is switched or routed by VPP. + +In addition selected IPv4 tunnels are tested at scale: + +- *dot1q--ip4vxlanscale-l2bd*: VXLAN over IPv4 tunnels with L2 bridge- + domain MAC switching, with scaled up dot1q VLANs (10, 100, 1k), + mapped to scaled up L2 bridge-domains (10, 100, 1k), that are in turn + mapped to (10, 100, 1k) VXLAN tunnels. 64.5k flows are transmitted per + direction. + +IPv6 Tunnels +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +VPP is tested in the following IPv6 tunnel baseline configurations: + +- *ip6lispip4-ip4base*: LISP over IPv4 tunnels with IPv4 routing. +- *ip6lispip6-ip6base*: LISP over IPv4 tunnels with IPv6 routing. + +In all cases listed above low number of IPv4, IPv6 flows (253 per +direction) is routed by VPP. |