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4 .. (c) OPNFV, National Center of Scientific Research "Demokritos" and others.
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7 vCGNAPT - Release Notes
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12 This is the beta release for vCGNAPT VNF.
13 vCGNAPT application can be run independently (refer INSTALL.rst).
17 Refer to README.rst for further details on vCGNAPT, HLD, features supported,
18 test plan. For build configurations and execution requisites please refer to
21 Feature for this release
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23 This release supports following features as part of vCGNAPT
25 - vCGNAPT can run as a standalone application on bare-metal linux server or on a virtual machine using SRIOV and OVS dpdk.
30 - ARP (request, response, gratuitous)
31 - ICMP (terminal echo, echo response, passthrough)
32 - ICMPv6 and ND (Neighbor Discovery)
33 - UDP, TCP and ICMP protocol passthrough
35 - Multiple physical port support
36 - Limiting max ports per client
37 - Limiting max clients per public IP address
38 - Live Session tracking to NAT flow
44 System requirements - OS and kernel version
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46 This is supported on Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 and kernel version less than 4.5
48 VNFs on BareMetal support:
49 OS: Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04 LTS
51 http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/
52 Download/Install the image: ubuntu-16.04.1-server-amd64.iso
54 VNFs on Standalone Hypervisor
55 HOST OS: Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04 LTS
56 http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/
57 Download/Install the image: ubuntu-16.04.1-server-amd64.iso
62 - VM OS - Ubuntu 16.04/Ubuntu 14.04
64 Known Bugs and limitations
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66 - Hadware Load Balancer feature is supported on fortville nic FW version 4.53 and below.
67 - L4 UDP Replay is used to capture throughput for dynamic cgnapt
68 - Hardware Checksum offload is not supported for IPv6 traffic.
69 - CGNAPT on sriov is tested till 4 threads
73 - SCTP passthrough support
74 - Multi-homing support
75 - Performance optimization on different platforms
79 Following links provides additional information for differenet version of DPDKs
81 http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-16.04/linux_gsg/quick_start.html
82 http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-16.11/linux_gsg/quick_start.html
83 http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-17.02/linux_gsg/quick_start.html
84 http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-17.05/linux_gsg/quick_start.html
87 http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-16.04/prog_guide/index.html
88 http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-16.11/prog_guide/index.html
89 http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-17.02/prog_guide/index.html
90 http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-17.05/prog_guide/index.html