Perf: NAT44 endpoint-dependent mode - tcp, part I

Jira: CSIT-1736

- tcp synthetic profiles w/o data packets
- tcp cps perf tests, phase I (no special "search cps" KW)

Change-Id: I52be34b0fdd51d7a33c8c5de9b46d7064c48f7fa
Signed-off-by: Jan Gelety <jgelety@cisco.com>

10 files changed, 1645 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h1024-p63-s64512-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h1024-p63-s64512-ndrpdr.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/shared/default.robot
+|
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | IP4BASE | DRV_VFIO_PCI | TCP_SYN
+| ... | RXQ_SIZE_0 | TXQ_SIZE_0
+| ... | ethip4tcp-ip4base-h1024-p63-s64512
+|
+| Suite Setup | Setup suite topology interfaces | performance
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down suite | performance
+| Test Setup | Setup test | performance
+| Test Teardown | Tear down test | performance
+|
+| Test Template | Local Template
+|
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput IPv4 routing test cases*
+|
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-TCP for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4
+| ... | routing and two static IPv4 /24 route entries. DUT1 tested with
+| ... | ${nic_name}.\
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage\
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different\
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch library.\
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile\
+| ... | contain L7 flows (${cps} bi-directional UDP flows) with all packets\
+| ... | containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with TCP header and static\
+| ... | payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+| @{plugins_to_enable}= | dpdk_plugin.so
+| ${crypto_type}= | ${None}
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${nic_driver}= | vfio-pci
+| ${nic_rxq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_txq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_pfs}= | 2
+| ${nic_vfs}= | 0
+| ${osi_layer}= | L7
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-astf-ethip4tcp-1024h
+| ${cps}= | ${64512}
+# Trial data overwrite
+| ${trial_duration}= | ${1.1}
+| ${trial_multiplicity}= | ${1}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config.\
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.\
+| |
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - frame_size - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| |
+| | [Arguments] | ${frame_size} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| |
+| | Set Test Variable | \${frame_size}
+| | Set Test Variable | \${max_rate} | ${cps}
+| | ${pre_stats}= | Create List
+| | ... | vpp-clear-stats | vpp-enable-packettrace | vpp-enable-elog
+| | ... | vpp-clear-runtime
+| | Set Test Variable | ${pre_stats}
+| | ${post_stats}= | Create List
+| | ... | vpp-show-stats | vpp-show-packettrace | vpp-show-elog
+| | ... | vpp-show-runtime
+| | Set Test Variable | ${post_stats}
+| |
+| | Given Set Jumbo
+| | And Add worker threads to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Pre-initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Initialize layer interface
+| | And Initialize IPv4 forwarding in circular topology
+| | ... | 192.168.0.0 | 20.0.0.0 | ${22}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search | latency=${False}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| 64B-1c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h1024-p63-s64512-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 64B-2c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h1024-p63-s64512-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 64B-4c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h1024-p63-s64512-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 1518B-1c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h1024-p63-s64512-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 1518B-2c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h1024-p63-s64512-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 1518B-4c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h1024-p63-s64512-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 9000B-1c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h1024-p63-s64512-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 9000B-2c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h1024-p63-s64512-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 9000B-4c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h1024-p63-s64512-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| IMIX-1c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h1024-p63-s64512-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| IMIX-2c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h1024-p63-s64512-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| IMIX-4c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h1024-p63-s64512-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h16384-p63-s1032192-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h16384-p63-s1032192-ndrpdr.robot
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index 0000000000..45ba61ef42
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+# Copyright (c) 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/shared/default.robot
+|
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | IP4BASE | DRV_VFIO_PCI | TCP_SYN
+| ... | RXQ_SIZE_0 | TXQ_SIZE_0
+| ... | ethip4tcp-ip4base-h16384-p63-s1032192
+|
+| Suite Setup | Setup suite topology interfaces | performance
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down suite | performance
+| Test Setup | Setup test | performance
+| Test Teardown | Tear down test | performance
+|
+| Test Template | Local Template
+|
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput IPv4 routing test cases*
+|
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-TCP for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4
+| ... | routing and two static IPv4 /24 route entries. DUT1 tested with
+| ... | ${nic_name}.\
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage\
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different\
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch library.\
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile\
+| ... | contain L7 flows (${cps} bi-directional TCP flows) with all packets\
+| ... | containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and static\
+| ... | payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+| @{plugins_to_enable}= | dpdk_plugin.so
+| ${crypto_type}= | ${None}
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${nic_driver}= | vfio-pci
+| ${nic_rxq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_txq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_pfs}= | 2
+| ${nic_vfs}= | 0
+| ${osi_layer}= | L7
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-astf-ethip4tcp-16384h
+| ${cps}= | ${1032192}
+# Trial data overwrite
+| ${trial_duration}= | ${1.1}
+| ${trial_multiplicity}= | ${1}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config.\
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.\
+| |
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - frame_size - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| |
+| | [Arguments] | ${frame_size} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| |
+| | Set Test Variable | \${frame_size}
+| | Set Test Variable | \${max_rate} | ${cps}
+| | ${pre_stats}= | Create List
+| | ... | vpp-clear-stats | vpp-enable-packettrace | vpp-enable-elog
+| | ... | vpp-clear-runtime
+| | Set Test Variable | ${pre_stats}
+| | ${post_stats}= | Create List
+| | ... | vpp-show-stats | vpp-show-packettrace | vpp-show-elog
+| | ... | vpp-show-runtime
+| | Set Test Variable | ${post_stats}
+| |
+| | Given Set Jumbo
+| | And Add worker threads to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Pre-initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Initialize layer interface
+| | And Initialize IPv4 forwarding in circular topology
+| | ... | 192.168.0.0 | 20.0.0.0 | ${18}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search | latency=${False}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| 64B-1c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h16384-p63-s1032192-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 64B-2c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h16384-p63-s1032192-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 64B-4c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h16384-p63-s1032192-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 1518B-1c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h16384-p63-s1032192-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 1518B-2c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h16384-p63-s1032192-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 1518B-4c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h16384-p63-s1032192-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 9000B-1c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h16384-p63-s1032192-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 9000B-2c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h16384-p63-s1032192-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 9000B-4c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h16384-p63-s1032192-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| IMIX-1c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h16384-p63-s1032192-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| IMIX-2c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h16384-p63-s1032192-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| IMIX-4c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h16384-p63-s1032192-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h262144-p63-s16515072-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h262144-p63-s16515072-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b3d1f84c8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h262144-p63-s16515072-ndrpdr.robot
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+# Copyright (c) 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/shared/default.robot
+|
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | IP4BASE | DRV_VFIO_PCI | TCP_SYN
+| ... | RXQ_SIZE_0 | TXQ_SIZE_0
+| ... | ethip4tcp-ip4base-h262144-p63-s16515072
+|
+| Suite Setup | Setup suite topology interfaces | performance
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down suite | performance
+| Test Setup | Setup test | performance
+| Test Teardown | Tear down test | performance
+|
+| Test Template | Local Template
+|
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput IPv4 routing test cases*
+|
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-TCP for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4
+| ... | routing and two static IPv4 /24 route entries. DUT1 tested with
+| ... | ${nic_name}.\
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage\
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different\
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch library.\
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile\
+| ... | contain L7 flows (${cps} bi-directional TCP flows) with all packets\
+| ... | containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with UDP header and static\
+| ... | payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+| @{plugins_to_enable}= | dpdk_plugin.so
+| ${crypto_type}= | ${None}
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${nic_driver}= | vfio-pci
+| ${nic_rxq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_txq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_pfs}= | 2
+| ${nic_vfs}= | 0
+| ${osi_layer}= | L7
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-astf-ethip4tcp-262144h
+| ${cps}= | ${16515072}
+# Trial data overwrite
+| ${trial_duration}= | ${1.1}
+| ${trial_multiplicity}= | ${1}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config.\
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.\
+| |
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - frame_size - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| |
+| | [Arguments] | ${frame_size} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| |
+| | Set Test Variable | \${frame_size}
+| | Set Test Variable | \${max_rate} | ${cps}
+| | ${pre_stats}= | Create List
+| | ... | vpp-clear-stats | vpp-enable-packettrace | vpp-enable-elog
+| | ... | vpp-clear-runtime
+| | Set Test Variable | ${pre_stats}
+| | ${post_stats}= | Create List
+| | ... | vpp-show-stats | vpp-show-packettrace | vpp-show-elog
+| | ... | vpp-show-runtime
+| | Set Test Variable | ${post_stats}
+| |
+| | Given Set Jumbo
+| | And Add worker threads to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Pre-initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Initialize layer interface
+| | And Initialize IPv4 forwarding in circular topology
+| | ... | 172.16.0.0 | 20.16.0.0 | ${14}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search | latency=${False}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| 64B-1c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h262144-p63-s16515072-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 64B-2c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h262144-p63-s16515072-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 64B-4c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h262144-p63-s16515072-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 1518B-1c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h262144-p63-s16515072-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 1518B-2c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h262144-p63-s16515072-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 1518B-4c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h262144-p63-s16515072-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 9000B-1c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h262144-p63-s16515072-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 9000B-2c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h262144-p63-s16515072-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 9000B-4c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h262144-p63-s16515072-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| IMIX-1c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h262144-p63-s16515072-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| IMIX-2c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h262144-p63-s16515072-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| IMIX-4c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h262144-p63-s16515072-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h4096-p63-s258048-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h4096-p63-s258048-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2229f90c80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h4096-p63-s258048-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/shared/default.robot
+|
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | IP4BASE | DRV_VFIO_PCI | TCP_SYN
+| ... | RXQ_SIZE_0 | TXQ_SIZE_0
+| ... | ethip4tcp-ip4base-h4096-p63-s258048
+|
+| Suite Setup | Setup suite topology interfaces | performance
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down suite | performance
+| Test Setup | Setup test | performance
+| Test Teardown | Tear down test | performance
+|
+| Test Template | Local Template
+|
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput IPv4 routing test cases*
+|
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-TCP for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4
+| ... | routing and two static IPv4 /24 route entries. DUT1 tested with
+| ... | ${nic_name}.\
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage\
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different\
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch library.\
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile\
+| ... | contain L7 flows (${cps} bi-directional UDP flows) with all packets\
+| ... | containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with TCP header and static\
+| ... | payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+| @{plugins_to_enable}= | dpdk_plugin.so
+| ${crypto_type}= | ${None}
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${nic_driver}= | vfio-pci
+| ${nic_rxq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_txq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_pfs}= | 2
+| ${nic_vfs}= | 0
+| ${osi_layer}= | L7
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-astf-ethip4tcp-4096h
+| ${cps}= | ${258048}
+# Trial data overwrite
+| ${trial_duration}= | ${1.1}
+| ${trial_multiplicity}= | ${1}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config.\
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.\
+| |
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - frame_size - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| |
+| | [Arguments] | ${frame_size} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| |
+| | Set Test Variable | \${frame_size}
+| | Set Test Variable | \${max_rate} | ${cps}
+| | ${pre_stats}= | Create List
+| | ... | vpp-clear-stats | vpp-enable-packettrace | vpp-enable-elog
+| | ... | vpp-clear-runtime
+| | Set Test Variable | ${pre_stats}
+| | ${post_stats}= | Create List
+| | ... | vpp-show-stats | vpp-show-packettrace | vpp-show-elog
+| | ... | vpp-show-runtime
+| | Set Test Variable | ${post_stats}
+| |
+| | Given Set Jumbo
+| | And Add worker threads to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Pre-initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Initialize layer interface
+| | And Initialize IPv4 forwarding in circular topology
+| | ... | 192.168.0.0 | 20.0.0.0 | ${20}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search | latency=${False}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| 64B-1c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h4096-p63-s258048-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 64B-2c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h4096-p63-s258048-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 64B-4c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h4096-p63-s258048-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 1518B-1c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h4096-p63-s258048-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 1518B-2c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h4096-p63-s258048-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 1518B-4c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h4096-p63-s258048-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 9000B-1c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h4096-p63-s258048-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 9000B-2c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h4096-p63-s258048-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 9000B-4c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h4096-p63-s258048-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| IMIX-1c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h4096-p63-s258048-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| IMIX-2c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h4096-p63-s258048-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| IMIX-4c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h4096-p63-s258048-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h65536-p63-s4128768-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h65536-p63-s4128768-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1a51c68365
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h65536-p63-s4128768-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/shared/default.robot
+|
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | IP4FWD | BASE | IP4BASE | DRV_VFIO_PCI | TCP_SYN
+| ... | RXQ_SIZE_0 | TXQ_SIZE_0
+| ... | ethip4tcp-ip4base-h65536-p63-s4128768
+|
+| Suite Setup | Setup suite topology interfaces | performance
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down suite | performance
+| Test Setup | Setup test | performance
+| Test Teardown | Tear down test | performance
+|
+| Test Template | Local Template
+|
+| Documentation | *RFC2544: Pkt throughput IPv4 routing test cases*
+|
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-TCP for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4
+| ... | routing and two static IPv4 /24 route entries. DUT1 tested with
+| ... | ${nic_name}.\
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage\
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different\
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch library.\
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile\
+| ... | contain L7 flows (${cps} bi-directional UDP flows) with all packets\
+| ... | containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with TCP header and static\
+| ... | payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* RFC2544.
+
+*** Variables ***
+| @{plugins_to_enable}= | dpdk_plugin.so
+| ${crypto_type}= | ${None}
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${nic_driver}= | vfio-pci
+| ${nic_rxq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_txq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_pfs}= | 2
+| ${nic_vfs}= | 0
+| ${osi_layer}= | L7
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-astf-ethip4tcp-65536h
+| ${cps}= | ${4128768}
+# Trial data overwrite
+| ${trial_duration}= | ${1.1}
+| ${trial_multiplicity}= | ${1}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs IPv4 routing config.\
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.\
+| |
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - frame_size - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| |
+| | [Arguments] | ${frame_size} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| |
+| | Set Test Variable | \${frame_size}
+| | Set Test Variable | \${max_rate} | ${cps}
+| | ${pre_stats}= | Create List
+| | ... | vpp-clear-stats | vpp-enable-packettrace | vpp-enable-elog
+| | ... | vpp-clear-runtime
+| | Set Test Variable | ${pre_stats}
+| | ${post_stats}= | Create List
+| | ... | vpp-show-stats | vpp-show-packettrace | vpp-show-elog
+| | ... | vpp-show-runtime
+| | Set Test Variable | ${post_stats}
+| |
+| | Given Set Jumbo
+| | And Add worker threads to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Pre-initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Initialize layer interface
+| | And Initialize IPv4 forwarding in circular topology
+| | ... | 192.168.0.0 | 20.0.0.0 | ${16}
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search | latency=${False}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| 64B-1c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h65536-p63-s4128768-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 64B-2c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h65536-p63-s4128768-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 64B-4c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h65536-p63-s4128768-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 1518B-1c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h65536-p63-s4128768-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 1518B-2c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h65536-p63-s4128768-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 1518B-4c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h65536-p63-s4128768-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 9000B-1c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h65536-p63-s4128768-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 9000B-2c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h65536-p63-s4128768-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 9000B-4c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h65536-p63-s4128768-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| IMIX-1c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h65536-p63-s4128768-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| IMIX-2c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h65536-p63-s4128768-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| IMIX-4c-ethip4tcp-ip4base-h65536-p63-s4128768-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h1024-p63-s64512-cps-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h1024-p63-s64512-cps-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8e66c3321a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h1024-p63-s64512-cps-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,179 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/shared/default.robot
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/ip/nat.robot
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/shared/traffic.robot
+|
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | NAT44 | TCP_SYN
+| ... | NAT44_ENDPOINT_DEPENDENT | BASE | DRV_VFIO_PCI
+| ... | RXQ_SIZE_0 | TXQ_SIZE_0
+| ... | ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h1024-p63-s64512-cps
+|
+| Suite Setup | Setup suite topology interfaces | performance
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down suite | performance
+| Test Setup | Setup test | performance
+| Test Teardown | Tear down test | performance | nat-ed
+|
+| Test Template | Local Template
+|
+| Documentation | *Connections per second NAT44 endpoint-dependent mode
+| ... | performance test cases*
+|
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-TCP for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4 routing and
+| ... | one static IPv4 /18 route entries.
+| ... | DUT1 is tested with ${nic_name}.\
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage\
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different\
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch library.\
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile\
+| ... | contain L7 flows (${cps} bi-directional TCP flows) with all packets\
+| ... | containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with TCP header and static\
+| ... | payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* Benchmarking Methodology\
+| ... | for Network Security Device Performance\
+| ... | (draft-ietf-bmwg-ngfw-performance-03).
+
+*** Variables ***
+| @{plugins_to_enable}= | dpdk_plugin.so | nat_plugin.so
+| ${crypto_type}= | ${None}
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${nic_driver}= | vfio-pci
+| ${nic_rxq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_txq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_pfs}= | 2
+| ${nic_vfs}= | 0
+| ${osi_layer}= | L7
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+# IP settings
+| ${tg_if1_ip4}= | 10.0.0.2
+| ${tg_if1_mask}= | ${20}
+| ${tg_if2_ip4}= | 12.0.0.2
+| ${tg_if2_mask}= | ${20}
+| ${dut1_if1_ip4}= | 10.0.0.1
+| ${dut1_if1_mask}= | ${24}
+| ${dut1_if2_ip4}= | 12.0.0.1
+| ${dut1_if2_mask}= | ${24}
+| ${dest_net}= | 20.0.0.0
+| ${dest_mask}= | ${22}
+# NAT settings
+| ${nat_mode}= | endpoint-dependent
+| ${max_translations_per_thread}= | 81920
+| ${in_net}= | 192.168.0.0
+| ${in_mask}= | ${22}
+| ${out_net}= | 68.142.68.0
+| ${out_net_end}= | 68.142.68.0
+| ${out_mask}= | ${32}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-astf-ethip4tcp-1024h
+| ${cps}= | ${64512}
+# Trial data overwrite
+| ${trial_duration}= | ${1.1}
+| ${trial_multiplicity}= | ${1}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| |
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs NAT44 ${nat_mode} configuration.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.\
+| |
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - frame_size - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| |
+| | [Arguments] | ${frame_size} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| |
+| | Set Test Variable | \${frame_size}
+| | Set Test Variable | \${max_rate} | ${cps}
+| | ${pre_stats}= | Create List
+| | ... | vpp-clear-stats | vpp-enable-packettrace | vpp-enable-elog
+| | ... | vpp-clear-runtime
+| | Set Test Variable | ${pre_stats}
+| | ${post_stats}= | Create List
+| | ... | vpp-show-stats | vpp-show-packettrace | vpp-show-elog
+| | ... | vpp-show-runtime
+| | Set Test Variable | ${post_stats}
+| |
+| | Given Set Jumbo
+| | And Add worker threads to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Pre-initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Add NAT to all DUTs | nat_mode=${nat_mode}
+| | And Add NAT max translations per thread to all DUTs
+| | ... | ${max_translations_per_thread}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Initialize layer interface
+| | And Initialize IPv4 forwarding for NAT44 in circular topology
+| | And Initialize NAT44 endpoint-dependent mode in circular topology
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search | latency=${False}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| 64B-1c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h1024-p63-s64512-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 64B-2c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h1024-p63-s64512-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 64B-4c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h1024-p63-s64512-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 1518B-1c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h1024-p63-s64512-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 1518B-2c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h1024-p63-s64512-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 1518B-4c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h1024-p63-s64512-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 9000B-1c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h1024-p63-s64512-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 9000B-2c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h1024-p63-s64512-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 9000B-4c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h1024-p63-s64512-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| IMIX-1c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h1024-p63-s64512-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| IMIX-2c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h1024-p63-s64512-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| IMIX-4c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h1024-p63-s64512-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h16384-p63-s1032192-cps-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h16384-p63-s1032192-cps-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c3735dd37f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h16384-p63-s1032192-cps-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,179 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/shared/default.robot
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/ip/nat.robot
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/shared/traffic.robot
+|
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | NAT44 | TCP_SYN
+| ... | NAT44_ENDPOINT_DEPENDENT | BASE | DRV_VFIO_PCI
+| ... | RXQ_SIZE_0 | TXQ_SIZE_0
+| ... | ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h16384-p63-s1032192-cps
+|
+| Suite Setup | Setup suite topology interfaces | performance
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down suite | performance
+| Test Setup | Setup test | performance
+| Test Teardown | Tear down test | performance | nat-ed
+|
+| Test Template | Local Template
+|
+| Documentation | *Connections per second NAT44 endpoint-dependent mode
+| ... | performance test cases*
+|
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-TCP for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4 routing and
+| ... | one static IPv4 /18 route entries.
+| ... | DUT1 is tested with ${nic_name}.\
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage\
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different\
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch library.\
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile\
+| ... | contain L7 flows (${cps} bi-directional TCP flows) with all packets\
+| ... | containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with TCP header and static\
+| ... | payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* Benchmarking Methodology\
+| ... | for Network Security Device Performance\
+| ... | (draft-ietf-bmwg-ngfw-performance-03).
+
+*** Variables ***
+| @{plugins_to_enable}= | dpdk_plugin.so | nat_plugin.so
+| ${crypto_type}= | ${None}
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${nic_driver}= | vfio-pci
+| ${nic_rxq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_txq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_pfs}= | 2
+| ${nic_vfs}= | 0
+| ${osi_layer}= | L7
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+# IP settings
+| ${tg_if1_ip4}= | 10.0.0.2
+| ${tg_if1_mask}= | ${20}
+| ${tg_if2_ip4}= | 12.0.0.2
+| ${tg_if2_mask}= | ${20}
+| ${dut1_if1_ip4}= | 10.0.0.1
+| ${dut1_if1_mask}= | ${24}
+| ${dut1_if2_ip4}= | 12.0.0.1
+| ${dut1_if2_mask}= | ${24}
+| ${dest_net}= | 20.0.0.0
+| ${dest_mask}= | ${18}
+# NAT settings
+| ${nat_mode}= | endpoint-dependent
+| ${max_translations_per_thread}= | 655360
+| ${in_net}= | 192.168.0.0
+| ${in_mask}= | ${18}
+| ${out_net}= | 68.142.68.0
+| ${out_net_end}= | 68.142.68.15
+| ${out_mask}= | ${28}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-astf-ethip4tcp-16384h
+| ${cps}= | ${1032192}
+# Trial data overwrite
+| ${trial_duration}= | ${1.1}
+| ${trial_multiplicity}= | ${1}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| |
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs NAT44 ${nat_mode} configuration.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.\
+| |
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - frame_size - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| |
+| | [Arguments] | ${frame_size} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| |
+| | Set Test Variable | \${frame_size}
+| | Set Test Variable | \${max_rate} | ${cps}
+| | ${pre_stats}= | Create List
+| | ... | vpp-clear-stats | vpp-enable-packettrace | vpp-enable-elog
+| | ... | vpp-clear-runtime
+| | Set Test Variable | ${pre_stats}
+| | ${post_stats}= | Create List
+| | ... | vpp-show-stats | vpp-show-packettrace | vpp-show-elog
+| | ... | vpp-show-runtime
+| | Set Test Variable | ${post_stats}
+| |
+| | Given Set Jumbo
+| | And Add worker threads to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Pre-initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Add NAT to all DUTs | nat_mode=${nat_mode}
+| | And Add NAT max translations per thread to all DUTs
+| | ... | ${max_translations_per_thread}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Initialize layer interface
+| | And Initialize IPv4 forwarding for NAT44 in circular topology
+| | And Initialize NAT44 endpoint-dependent mode in circular topology
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search | latency=${False}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| 64B-1c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h16384-p63-s1032192-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 64B-2c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h16384-p63-s1032192-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 64B-4c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h16384-p63-s1032192-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 1518B-1c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h16384-p63-s1032192-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 1518B-2c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h16384-p63-s1032192-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 1518B-4c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h16384-p63-s1032192-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 9000B-1c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h16384-p63-s1032192-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 9000B-2c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h16384-p63-s1032192-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 9000B-4c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h16384-p63-s1032192-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| IMIX-1c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h16384-p63-s1032192-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| IMIX-2c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h16384-p63-s1032192-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| IMIX-4c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h16384-p63-s1032192-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h262144-p63-s16515072-cps-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h262144-p63-s16515072-cps-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9daf9e8681
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h262144-p63-s16515072-cps-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,179 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/shared/default.robot
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/ip/nat.robot
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/shared/traffic.robot
+|
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | NAT44 | TCP_SYN
+| ... | NAT44_ENDPOINT_DEPENDENT | BASE | DRV_VFIO_PCI
+| ... | RXQ_SIZE_0 | TXQ_SIZE_0
+| ... | ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h262144-p63-s16515072-cps
+|
+| Suite Setup | Setup suite topology interfaces | performance
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down suite | performance
+| Test Setup | Setup test | performance
+| Test Teardown | Tear down test | performance | nat-ed
+|
+| Test Template | Local Template
+|
+| Documentation | *Connections per second NAT44 endpoint-dependent mode
+| ... | performance test cases*
+|
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-TCP for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4 routing and
+| ... | one static IPv4 /18 route entries.
+| ... | DUT1 is tested with ${nic_name}.\
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage\
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different\
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch library.\
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile\
+| ... | contain L7 flows (${cps} bi-directional TCP flows) with all packets\
+| ... | containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with TCP header and static\
+| ... | payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* Benchmarking Methodology\
+| ... | for Network Security Device Performance\
+| ... | (draft-ietf-bmwg-ngfw-performance-03).
+
+*** Variables ***
+| @{plugins_to_enable}= | dpdk_plugin.so | nat_plugin.so
+| ${crypto_type}= | ${None}
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${nic_driver}= | vfio-pci
+| ${nic_rxq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_txq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_pfs}= | 2
+| ${nic_vfs}= | 0
+| ${osi_layer}= | L7
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+# IP settings
+| ${tg_if1_ip4}= | 10.0.0.2
+| ${tg_if1_mask}= | ${20}
+| ${tg_if2_ip4}= | 12.0.0.2
+| ${tg_if2_mask}= | ${20}
+| ${dut1_if1_ip4}= | 10.0.0.1
+| ${dut1_if1_mask}= | ${24}
+| ${dut1_if2_ip4}= | 12.0.0.1
+| ${dut1_if2_mask}= | ${24}
+| ${dest_net}= | 20.16.0.0
+| ${dest_mask}= | ${14}
+# NAT settings
+| ${nat_mode}= | endpoint-dependent
+| ${max_translations_per_thread}= | 10485760
+| ${in_net}= | 172.16.0.0
+| ${in_mask}= | ${14}
+| ${out_net}= | 68.142.68.0
+| ${out_net_end}= | 68.142.68.255
+| ${out_mask}= | ${24}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-astf-ethip4tcp-262144h
+| ${cps}= | ${16515072}
+# Trial data overwrite
+| ${trial_duration}= | ${1.1}
+| ${trial_multiplicity}= | ${1}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| |
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs NAT44 ${nat_mode} configuration.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.\
+| |
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - frame_size - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| |
+| | [Arguments] | ${frame_size} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| |
+| | Set Test Variable | \${frame_size}
+| | Set Test Variable | \${max_rate} | ${cps}
+| | ${pre_stats}= | Create List
+| | ... | vpp-clear-stats | vpp-enable-packettrace | vpp-enable-elog
+| | ... | vpp-clear-runtime
+| | Set Test Variable | ${pre_stats}
+| | ${post_stats}= | Create List
+| | ... | vpp-show-stats | vpp-show-packettrace | vpp-show-elog
+| | ... | vpp-show-runtime
+| | Set Test Variable | ${post_stats}
+| |
+| | Given Set Jumbo
+| | And Add worker threads to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Pre-initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Add NAT to all DUTs | nat_mode=${nat_mode}
+| | And Add NAT max translations per thread to all DUTs
+| | ... | ${max_translations_per_thread}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Initialize layer interface
+| | And Initialize IPv4 forwarding for NAT44 in circular topology
+| | And Initialize NAT44 endpoint-dependent mode in circular topology
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search | latency=${False}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| 64B-1c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h262144-p63-s16515072-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 64B-2c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h262144-p63-s16515072-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 64B-4c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h262144-p63-s16515072-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 1518B-1c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h262144-p63-s16515072-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 1518B-2c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h262144-p63-s16515072-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 1518B-4c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h262144-p63-s16515072-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 9000B-1c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h262144-p63-s16515072-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 9000B-2c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h262144-p63-s16515072-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 9000B-4c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h262144-p63-s16515072-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| IMIX-1c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h262144-p63-s16515072-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| IMIX-2c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h262144-p63-s16515072-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| IMIX-4c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h262144-p63-s16515072-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
diff --git a/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h4096-p63-s258048-cps-ndrpdr.robot b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h4096-p63-s258048-cps-ndrpdr.robot
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..79bd166551
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vpp/perf/ip4/2n1l-10ge2p1x710-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h4096-p63-s258048-cps-ndrpdr.robot
@@ -0,0 +1,179 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/shared/default.robot
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/ip/nat.robot
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/shared/traffic.robot
+|
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | NAT44 | TCP_SYN
+| ... | NAT44_ENDPOINT_DEPENDENT | BASE | DRV_VFIO_PCI
+| ... | RXQ_SIZE_0 | TXQ_SIZE_0
+| ... | ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h4096-p63-s258048-cps
+|
+| Suite Setup | Setup suite topology interfaces | performance
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down suite | performance
+| Test Setup | Setup test | performance
+| Test Teardown | Tear down test | performance | nat-ed
+|
+| Test Template | Local Template
+|
+| Documentation | *Connections per second NAT44 endpoint-dependent mode
+| ... | performance test cases*
+|
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-TCP for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4 routing and
+| ... | one static IPv4 /18 route entries.
+| ... | DUT1 is tested with ${nic_name}.\
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage\
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different\
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch library.\
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile\
+| ... | contain L7 flows (${cps} bi-directional TCP flows) with all packets\
+| ... | containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with TCP header and static\
+| ... | payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* Benchmarking Methodology\
+| ... | for Network Security Device Performance\
+| ... | (draft-ietf-bmwg-ngfw-performance-03).
+
+*** Variables ***
+| @{plugins_to_enable}= | dpdk_plugin.so | nat_plugin.so
+| ${crypto_type}= | ${None}
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${nic_driver}= | vfio-pci
+| ${nic_rxq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_txq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_pfs}= | 2
+| ${nic_vfs}= | 0
+| ${osi_layer}= | L7
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+# IP settings
+| ${tg_if1_ip4}= | 10.0.0.2
+| ${tg_if1_mask}= | ${20}
+| ${tg_if2_ip4}= | 12.0.0.2
+| ${tg_if2_mask}= | ${20}
+| ${dut1_if1_ip4}= | 10.0.0.1
+| ${dut1_if1_mask}= | ${24}
+| ${dut1_if2_ip4}= | 12.0.0.1
+| ${dut1_if2_mask}= | ${24}
+| ${dest_net}= | 20.0.0.0
+| ${dest_mask}= | ${20}
+# NAT settings
+| ${nat_mode}= | endpoint-dependent
+| ${max_translations_per_thread}= | 163840
+| ${in_net}= | 192.168.0.0
+| ${in_mask}= | ${20}
+| ${out_net}= | 68.142.68.0
+| ${out_net_end}= | 68.142.68.3
+| ${out_mask}= | ${30}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-astf-ethip4tcp-4096h
+| ${cps}= | ${258048}
+# Trial data overwrite
+| ${trial_duration}= | ${1.1}
+| ${trial_multiplicity}= | ${1}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| |
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs NAT44 ${nat_mode} configuration.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.\
+| |
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - frame_size - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| |
+| | [Arguments] | ${frame_size} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| |
+| | Set Test Variable | \${frame_size}
+| | Set Test Variable | \${max_rate} | ${cps}
+| | ${pre_stats}= | Create List
+| | ... | vpp-clear-stats | vpp-enable-packettrace | vpp-enable-elog
+| | ... | vpp-clear-runtime
+| | Set Test Variable | ${pre_stats}
+| | ${post_stats}= | Create List
+| | ... | vpp-show-stats | vpp-show-packettrace | vpp-show-elog
+| | ... | vpp-show-runtime
+| | Set Test Variable | ${post_stats}
+| |
+| | Given Set Jumbo
+| | And Add worker threads to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Pre-initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Add NAT to all DUTs | nat_mode=${nat_mode}
+| | And Add NAT max translations per thread to all DUTs
+| | ... | ${max_translations_per_thread}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Initialize layer interface
+| | And Initialize IPv4 forwarding for NAT44 in circular topology
+| | And Initialize NAT44 endpoint-dependent mode in circular topology
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search | latency=${False}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| 64B-1c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h4096-p63-s258048-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 64B-2c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h4096-p63-s258048-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 64B-4c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h4096-p63-s258048-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 1518B-1c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h4096-p63-s258048-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 1518B-2c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h4096-p63-s258048-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 1518B-4c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h4096-p63-s258048-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 9000B-1c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h4096-p63-s258048-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 9000B-2c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h4096-p63-s258048-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 9000B-4c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h4096-p63-s258048-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| IMIX-1c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h4096-p63-s258048-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| IMIX-2c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h4096-p63-s258048-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| IMIX-4c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h4096-p63-s258048-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}
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+# Copyright (c) 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+*** Settings ***
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/shared/default.robot
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/ip/nat.robot
+| Resource | resources/libraries/robot/shared/traffic.robot
+|
+| Force Tags | 2_NODE_SINGLE_LINK_TOPO | PERFTEST | HW_ENV | NDRPDR
+| ... | NIC_Intel-X710 | ETH | IP4FWD | FEATURE | NAT44 | TCP_SYN
+| ... | NAT44_ENDPOINT_DEPENDENT | BASE | DRV_VFIO_PCI
+| ... | RXQ_SIZE_0 | TXQ_SIZE_0
+| ... | ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h65536-p63-s4128768-cps
+|
+| Suite Setup | Setup suite topology interfaces | performance
+| Suite Teardown | Tear down suite | performance
+| Test Setup | Setup test | performance
+| Test Teardown | Tear down test | performance | nat-ed
+|
+| Test Template | Local Template
+|
+| Documentation | *Connections per second NAT44 endpoint-dependent mode
+| ... | performance test cases*
+|
+| ... | *[Top] Network Topologies:* TG-DUT1-TG 2-node circular topology
+| ... | with single links between nodes.
+| ... | *[Enc] Packet Encapsulations:* Eth-IPv4-TCP for IPv4 routing.
+| ... | *[Cfg] DUT configuration:* DUT1 is configured with IPv4 routing and
+| ... | one static IPv4 /18 route entries.
+| ... | DUT1 is tested with ${nic_name}.\
+| ... | *[Ver] TG verification:* TG finds and reports throughput NDR (Non Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with zero packet loss tolerance and throughput PDR (Partial Drop\
+| ... | Rate) with non-zero packet loss tolerance (LT) expressed in percentage\
+| ... | of packets transmitted. NDR and PDR are discovered for different\
+| ... | Ethernet L2 frame sizes using MLRsearch library.\
+| ... | Test packets are generated by TG on links to DUTs. TG traffic profile\
+| ... | contain L7 flows (${cps} bi-directional TCP flows) with all packets\
+| ... | containing Ethernet header, IPv4 header with TCP header and static\
+| ... | payload. MAC addresses are matching MAC addresses of the TG node\
+| ... | interfaces.
+| ... | *[Ref] Applicable standard specifications:* Benchmarking Methodology\
+| ... | for Network Security Device Performance\
+| ... | (draft-ietf-bmwg-ngfw-performance-03).
+
+*** Variables ***
+| @{plugins_to_enable}= | dpdk_plugin.so | nat_plugin.so
+| ${crypto_type}= | ${None}
+| ${nic_name}= | Intel-X710
+| ${nic_driver}= | vfio-pci
+| ${nic_rxq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_txq_size}= | 0
+| ${nic_pfs}= | 2
+| ${nic_vfs}= | 0
+| ${osi_layer}= | L7
+| ${overhead}= | ${0}
+# IP settings
+| ${tg_if1_ip4}= | 10.0.0.2
+| ${tg_if1_mask}= | ${20}
+| ${tg_if2_ip4}= | 12.0.0.2
+| ${tg_if2_mask}= | ${20}
+| ${dut1_if1_ip4}= | 10.0.0.1
+| ${dut1_if1_mask}= | ${24}
+| ${dut1_if2_ip4}= | 12.0.0.1
+| ${dut1_if2_mask}= | ${24}
+| ${dest_net}= | 20.0.0.0
+| ${dest_mask}= | ${16}
+# NAT settings
+| ${nat_mode}= | endpoint-dependent
+| ${max_translations_per_thread}= | 2621440
+| ${in_net}= | 192.168.0.0
+| ${in_mask}= | ${16}
+| ${out_net}= | 68.142.68.0
+| ${out_net_end}= | 68.142.68.63
+| ${out_mask}= | ${26}
+# Traffic profile:
+| ${traffic_profile}= | trex-astf-ethip4tcp-65536h
+| ${cps}= | ${4128768}
+# Trial data overwrite
+| ${trial_duration}= | ${1.1}
+| ${trial_multiplicity}= | ${1}
+
+*** Keywords ***
+| Local Template
+| |
+| | [Documentation]
+| | ... | [Cfg] DUT runs NAT44 ${nat_mode} configuration.
+| | ... | Each DUT uses ${phy_cores} physical core(s) for worker threads.
+| | ... | [Ver] Measure NDR and PDR values using MLRsearch algorithm.\
+| |
+| | ... | *Arguments:*
+| | ... | - frame_size - Framesize in Bytes in integer or string (IMIX_v4_1).
+| | ... | Type: integer, string
+| | ... | - phy_cores - Number of physical cores. Type: integer
+| | ... | - rxq - Number of RX queues, default value: ${None}. Type: integer
+| |
+| | [Arguments] | ${frame_size} | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}=${None}
+| |
+| | Set Test Variable | \${frame_size}
+| | Set Test Variable | \${max_rate} | ${cps}
+| | ${pre_stats}= | Create List
+| | ... | vpp-clear-stats | vpp-enable-packettrace | vpp-enable-elog
+| | ... | vpp-clear-runtime
+| | Set Test Variable | ${pre_stats}
+| | ${post_stats}= | Create List
+| | ... | vpp-show-stats | vpp-show-packettrace | vpp-show-elog
+| | ... | vpp-show-runtime
+| | Set Test Variable | ${post_stats}
+| |
+| | Given Set Jumbo
+| | And Add worker threads to all DUTs | ${phy_cores} | ${rxq}
+| | And Pre-initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Add NAT to all DUTs | nat_mode=${nat_mode}
+| | And Add NAT max translations per thread to all DUTs
+| | ... | ${max_translations_per_thread}
+| | And Apply startup configuration on all VPP DUTs
+| | When Initialize layer driver | ${nic_driver}
+| | And Initialize layer interface
+| | And Initialize IPv4 forwarding for NAT44 in circular topology
+| | And Initialize NAT44 endpoint-dependent mode in circular topology
+| | Then Find NDR and PDR intervals using optimized search | latency=${False}
+
+*** Test Cases ***
+| 64B-1c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h65536-p63-s4128768-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 64B-2c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h65536-p63-s4128768-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 64B-4c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h65536-p63-s4128768-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 64B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${64} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 1518B-1c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h65536-p63-s4128768-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 1518B-2c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h65536-p63-s4128768-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 1518B-4c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h65536-p63-s4128768-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 1518B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${1518} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| 9000B-1c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h65536-p63-s4128768-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 1C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| 9000B-2c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h65536-p63-s4128768-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 2C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| 9000B-4c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h65536-p63-s4128768-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | 9000B | 4C
+| | frame_size=${9000} | phy_cores=${4}
+
+| IMIX-1c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h65536-p63-s4128768-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 1C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${1}
+
+| IMIX-2c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h65536-p63-s4128768-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 2C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${2}
+
+| IMIX-4c-ethip4tcp-snat44ed-h65536-p63-s4128768-cps-ndrpdr
+| | [Tags] | IMIX | 4C
+| | frame_size=IMIX_v4_1 | phy_cores=${4}