From 5c739ab22c2b62dd38a4d89d62188e1baa7a0f45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tibor Frank Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 10:20:41 +0100 Subject: CSIT-1420: Split methodology section to more files Change-Id: I861e578434abdf72244d684fca8cfd66e1db9c28 Signed-off-by: Tibor Frank (cherry picked from commit 124101d22151239b0411a73ae4d2bf8d70970937) --- .../methodology_tunnel_encapsulations.rst | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/report/introduction/methodology_tunnel_encapsulations.rst (limited to 'docs/report/introduction/methodology_tunnel_encapsulations.rst') 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. -- cgit 1.2.3-korg