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IPv6 Benchmarking Methodology

This draft provides guidelines for IPv6 benchmarking, complementing RFC2544 with specific IPv6 recommendations for network element evaluation. It covers test environment setup, frame sizes, protocol address selection, traffic with extension headers, modifiers, and benchmarking tests.

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IPv6 Benchmarking Methodology

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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. draft-popoviciu-bmwg-ipv6benchmarking-00.txt THANK YOU! draft-popoviciu-bmwg-ipv6benchmarking-00.txt

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