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IPv6 Benchmarking Methodology. Ciprian Popoviciu, Ahmed Hamza, Gunter Van de Velde, Diego Dugatkin, Bill Kine. IETF 65, March 21th 2006 Dallas, TX. Goals: Address a very acute need with respect to recommendations on evaluating network elements for the IPv6 deployment
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IPv6 Benchmarking Methodology Ciprian Popoviciu, Ahmed Hamza, Gunter Van de Velde, Diego Dugatkin, Bill Kine IETF 65, March 21th 2006 Dallas, TX draft-popoviciu-bmwg-ipv6benchmarking-00.txt
Goals: • Address a very acute need with respect to recommendations on evaluating network elements for the IPv6 deployment • Complement but not replace RFC2544 in accordance with BMWG strategy • Provide the additional, IPv6 specific guidelines to IP benchmarking while indicating the aspects of RFC2544 that are independent of IP’s version. • Maintain the structure and spirit of RFC2544 draft-popoviciu-bmwg-ipv6benchmarking-00.txt
Covered Areas: • Test Environment Setup- Highlights the fact that the recommendations of RFC2544 are valid- Discuss the relevancy of dual box test environments when benchmarking forwarding through transition mechanisms such as tunneling or translation • Frame sizes- Reviews the recommended encapsulations and sizes draft-popoviciu-bmwg-ipv6benchmarking-00.txt
Covered Areas (continued): • Protocol Address Selection- Approach similar to RFC2544 applied to IPv6- Identified the IPv6 address space to be used during testing (DUT and traffic)- Recommendation on the prefix length distribution for the test traffic • Traffic with Extension Headers- Important feature specific to IPv6- Recommendation on EH use in test traffic draft-popoviciu-bmwg-ipv6benchmarking-00.txt
Covered Areas (continued): • Modifiers- Updated some recommendations in accordance with IPv6 specificities- Particular attention given to Upper Layer Information Filters impact when the traffic contains Extension Headers • Benchmarking Tests (same as in RFC2544)- Throughput- Latency- Frame Loss- Back-to-Back Frames- System Recovery- Reset draft-popoviciu-bmwg-ipv6benchmarking-00.txt
Things to consider: • We believe this draft, as a complement to RFC2544, does not need a new terminology predecessor. • Currently there is no active work defining IPv6 terminology for benchmarking. Work started by Cynthia Martin and Jeff Dunn, expired:draft-martin-bmwg-ipv6-term-xx.txt • Nevertheless, future IPv6 work might benefit from a terminology document. We are ready to assist with such work. draft-popoviciu-bmwg-ipv6benchmarking-00.txt
IPv6 benchmarking guidelines are extremely important due to the increasing interest in IPv6, demonstrated by present migration roadmaps established throughout the industry Proposed Next Steps: • Request expert feedback from BMWG members • Make the document a WG work item draft-popoviciu-bmwg-ipv6benchmarking-00.txt
draft-popoviciu-bmwg-ipv6benchmarking-00.txt THANK YOU! draft-popoviciu-bmwg-ipv6benchmarking-00.txt