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diff --git a/docs/report/introduction/methodology_geneve.rst b/docs/report/introduction/methodology_geneve.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 1ae8bfaa7a..0000000000 --- a/docs/report/introduction/methodology_geneve.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,73 +0,0 @@ -.. _geneve_methodology: - -Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation --------------------------------------------- - -GENEVE Prefix Bindings -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - -GENEVE prefix bindings should be representative to target applications, where -a packet flows of particular set of IPv4 addresses (L3 underlay network) is -routed via dedicated GENEVE interface by building an L2 overlay. - -Private address ranges to be used in tests: - -- East hosts ip address range: 10.0.1.0 - 10.127.255.255 (10.0/9 prefix) - - - Total of 2^23 - 256 (8 388 352) of usable IPv4 addresses - - Usable in tests for up to 32 767 GENEVE tunnels (IPv4 underlay networks) - -- West hosts ip address range: 10.128.1.0 - 10.255.255.255 (10.128/9 prefix) - - - Total of 2^23 - 256 (8 388 352) of usable IPv4 addresses - - Usable in tests for up to 32 767 GENEVE tunnels (IPv4 underlay networks) - -GENEVE Tunnel Scale -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -If N is a number of GENEVE tunnels (and IPv4 underlay networks) then TG sends -256 packet flows in every of N different sets: - -- i = 1,2,3, ... N - GENEVE tunnel index - -- East-West direction: GENEVE encapsulated packets - - - Outer IP header: - - - src ip: 1.1.1.1 - - - dst ip: 1.1.1.2 - - - GENEVE header: - - - vni: i - - - Inner IP header: - - - src_ip_range(i) = 10.(0 + rounddown(i/255)).(modulo(i/255)).(0-to-255) - - - dst_ip_range(i) = 10.(128 + rounddown(i/255)).(modulo(i/255)).(0-to-255) - -- West-East direction: non-encapsulated packets - - - IP header: - - - src_ip_range(i) = 10.(128 + rounddown(i/255)).(modulo(i/255)).(0-to-255) - - - dst_ip_range(i) = 10.(0 + rounddown(i/255)).(modulo(i/255)).(0-to-255) - -+----------------+-------------+ -| geneve-tunnels | total-flows | -+================+=============+ -| 1 | 256 | -+----------------+-------------+ -| 4 | 1 024 | -+----------------+-------------+ -| 16 | 4 096 | -+----------------+-------------+ -| 64 | 16 384 | -+----------------+-------------+ -| 256 | 65 536 | -+----------------+-------------+ -| 1 024 | 262 144 | -+----------------+-------------+ |