+++ /dev/null
-==========================
-Virtual Traffic Classifier
-==========================
-
-Overview
-========
-
-The virtual Traffic Classifier VNF [1], comprises in the current version of
-1 VNFC [2]. The VNFC contains both the Traffic Inspection module, and the
-Traffic forwarding module, needed to run the VNF. The exploitation of DPI
-methods for traffic classification is built around two basic assumptions:
-
-(i) third parties unaffiliated with either source or recipient are able to
-inspect each IP packet’s payload and
-(ii) the classifier knows the relevant syntax of each application’s packet
-payloads (protocol signatures, data patterns, etc.).
-
-The proposed DPI based approach will only use an indicative, small number of
-the initial packets from each flow in order to identify the content and not
-inspect each packet.
-
-In this respect it follows the Packet Based per Flow State (PBFS).
-This method uses a table to track each session based on the 5-tuples
-(src address,dest address,src port,dest port,transport protocol)
-that is maintained for each flow.
-
-Concepts
-========
-
-Traffic Inspection: The process of packet analysis and application
-identification of network traffic that passes through the vTC.
-
-Traffic Forwarding: The process of packet forwarding from an incoming
-network interface to a pre-defined outgoing network interface.
-
-Traffic Rule Application: The process of packet tagging, based on a
-predefined set of rules. Packet tagging may include e.g. ToS field
-modification.
-
-Architecture
-============
-
-The Traffic Inspection module is the most computationally intensive component
-of the VNF. It implements filtering and packet matching algorithms in order to
-support the enhanced traffic forwarding capability of the VNF. The component
-supports a flow table (exploiting hashing algorithms for fast indexing of
-flows) and an inspection engine for traffic classification.
-
-The implementation used for these experiments exploits the nDPI library.
-The packet capturing mechanism is implemented using libpcap. When the DPI
-engine identifies a new flow, the flow register is updated with the
-appropriate information and transmitted across the Traffic Forwarding module,
-which then applies any required policy updates.
-
-The Traffic Forwarding moudle is responsible for routing and packet forwarding.
-It accepts incoming network traffic, consults the flow table for classification
-information for each incoming flow and then applies pre-defined policies
-marking e.g. type of Service/Differentiated Services Code Point (TOS/DSCP)
-multimedia traffic for QoS enablement on the forwarded traffic.
-It is assumed that the traffic is forwarded using the default policy until it
-is identified and new policies are enforced.
-
-The expected response delay is considered to be negligible,as only a small
-number of packets are required to identify each flow.
-
-Graphical Overview
-==================
-
-Install
-=======
-
-run the build.sh with root privileges
-
-Run
-===
-
-sudo ./pfbridge -a eth1 -b eth2
-
-Custom Image
-============
-
-TBD
-
-Development Environment
-=======================
-
-Ubuntu 14.04 >= VM
+++ /dev/null
-Abbreviations for the virtual Traffic Classifier
-================================================
-
-[1] VNF - Virtual Network Function
-[2] VNFC - Virtual Network Function Component
described in :doc:`02-methodology`
* *OPNFV Feature Test Cases* - Test Cases developed to verify one or more
-aspect of a feature delivered by an OPNFV Project.
+aspect of a feature delivered by an OPNFV Project, including the test cases
+developed for the :term:`VTC`.
Generic NFVI Test Case Descriptions
===================================
opnfv_yardstick_tc010.rst
opnfv_yardstick_tc012.rst
opnfv_yardstick_tc014.rst
- opnfv_yardstick_tc027.rst
opnfv_yardstick_tc037.rst
opnfv_yardstick_tc038.rst
- opnfv_yardstick_tc040.rst
OPNFV Feature Test Cases
========================
+IPv6
+----
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ opnfv_yardstick_tc027.rst
+
+Parser
+------
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ opnfv_yardstick_tc040.rst
+
+virtual Traffic Classifier
+--------------------------
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+ opnfv_yardstick_tc006.rst
+ opnfv_yardstick_tc007.rst
+ opnfv_yardstick_tc020.rst
+ opnfv_yardstick_tc021.rst
Templates
=========
--- /dev/null
+==========================
+Virtual Traffic Classifier
+==========================
+
+Abstract
+========
+
+.. _TNOVA: http://www.t-nova.eu/
+.. _TNOVAresults: http://www.t-nova.eu/results/
+.. _Yardstick: https://wiki.opnfv.org/yardstick
+
+This chapter provides an overview of the virtual Traffic Classifier, a
+contribution to OPNFV Yardstick_ from the EU Project TNOVA_.
+Additional documentation is available in TNOVAresults_.
+
+Overview
+========
+
+The virtual Traffic Classifier :term:`VNF`, the :term:`VTC`, comprises of a
+:term:`VNFC`. The :term:`VNFC` contains both the Traffic Inspection module, and
+the Traffic forwarding module, needed to run the VNF. The exploitation of
+:term:`DPI` methods for traffic classification is built around two basic
+assumptions:
+
+* third parties unaffiliated with either source or recipient are able to
+inspect each IP packet’s payload
+
+* the classifier knows the relevant syntax of each application’s packet
+payloads (protocol signatures, data patterns, etc.).
+
+The proposed :term:`DPI` based approach will only use an indicative, small
+number of the initial packets from each flow in order to identify the content
+and not inspect each packet.
+
+In this respect it follows the :term:`PBFS`. This method uses a table to track
+each session based on the 5-tuples (src address, dest address, src port,dest
+port, transport protocol) that is maintained for each flow.
+
+Concepts
+========
+
+* *Traffic Inspection*: The process of packet analysis and application
+identification of network traffic that passes through the :term:`VTC`.
+
+* *Traffic Forwarding*: The process of packet forwarding from an incoming
+network interface to a pre-defined outgoing network interface.
+
+* *Traffic Rule Application*: The process of packet tagging, based on a
+predefined set of rules. Packet tagging may include e.g. :term:`ToS` field
+modification.
+
+Architecture
+============
+
+The Traffic Inspection module is the most computationally intensive component
+of the :term:`VNF`. It implements filtering and packet matching algorithms in
+order to support the enhanced traffic forwarding capability of the :term:`VNF`.
+The component supports a flow table (exploiting hashing algorithms for fast
+indexing of flows) and an inspection engine for traffic classification.
+
+The implementation used for these experiments exploits the nDPI library.
+The packet capturing mechanism is implemented using libpcap. When the
+:term:`DPI` engine identifies a new flow, the flow register is updated with the
+appropriate information and transmitted across the Traffic Forwarding module,
+which then applies any required policy updates.
+
+The Traffic Forwarding moudle is responsible for routing and packet forwarding.
+It accepts incoming network traffic, consults the flow table for classification
+information for each incoming flow and then applies pre-defined policies
+marking e.g. :term:`ToS`/:term:`DSCP` multimedia traffic for :term:`QoS`
+enablement on the forwarded traffic.
+It is assumed that the traffic is forwarded using the default policy until it
+is identified and new policies are enforced.
+
+The expected response delay is considered to be negligible, as only a small
+number of packets are required to identify each flow.
+
+Graphical Overview
+==================
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ +----------------------------+
+ | |
+ | Virtual Traffic Classifier |
+ | |
+ | Analysing/Forwarding |
+ | ------------> |
+ | ethA ethB |
+ | |
+ +----------------------------+
+ | ^
+ | |
+ v |
+ +----------------------------+
+ | |
+ | Virtual Switch |
+ | |
+ +----------------------------+
+
+Install
+=======
+
+run the build.sh with root privileges
+
+Run
+===
+
+sudo ./pfbridge -a eth1 -b eth2
+
+Development Environment
+=======================
+
+Ubuntu 14.04
.. glossary::
:sorted:
+ DPI
+ Deep Packet Inspection
+
+ DSCP
+ Differentiated Services Code Point
+
+ PBFS
+ Packet Based per Flow State
+
+ QoS
+ Quality of Service
+
VNF
Virtual Network Function
+ VNFC
+ Virtual Network Function Component
+
NFVI
Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure
+ ToS
+ Type of Service
+
VTC
Virtual Traffic Classifier
01-introduction
02-methodology
+ 04-vtc-overview
03-list-of-tcs
glossary
-.. _DPDKpktgen: https://github.com/Pktgen/Pktgen-DPDK/
-.. _rfc2544: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2544.txt
-
-
*************************************
Yardstick Test Case Description TC006
*************************************
+
+.. _DPDKpktgen: https://github.com/Pktgen/Pktgen-DPDK/
+.. _rfc2544: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2544.txt
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Network Performance |
-+==============+==============================================================+
+| |
++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|test case id | OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TC006_Virtual Traffic Classifier Data Plane |
| | Throughput Benchmarking Test. |
| | |
| | |
+--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|references | DPDK Pktgen: DPDKpktgen_ |
+| | |
| | ETSI-NFV-TST001 |
+| | |
| | RFC 2544: rfc2544_ |
| | |
+--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| | (For further instructions please refer to the ApexLake |
| | documentation). |
| | |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|test sequence | Description and expected results |
| | |
-+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|step 1 | The vTC is deployed, according to the user-defined |
| | configuration |
| | |
-.. image:: ../../etc/opnfv-logo.png
- :height: 40
- :width: 200
- :alt: OPNFV
- :align: left
-
*************************************
Yardstick Test Case Description TC007
*************************************
+
+.. _DPDKpktgen: https://github.com/Pktgen/Pktgen-DPDK/
+.. _rfc2544: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2544.txt
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Network Performance |
-+==============+==============================================================+
+| |
++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|test case id | OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TC007_Virtual Traffic Classifier Data Plane |
| | Throughput Benchmarking Test in Presence of Noisy |
| | neighbours |
| | hence it needs to be installed by the user. |
| | |
+--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
-|references | DPDK Pktgen: https://github.com/Pktgen/Pktgen-DPDK/ |
+|references | DPDKpktgen_ |
+| | |
| | ETSI-NFV-TST001 |
-| | RFC 2544 https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2544.txt |
+| | |
+| | rfc2544_ |
| | |
+--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|applicability | Test can be configured with different flavors, vNIC type |
-.. image:: ../../etc/opnfv-logo.png
- :height: 40
- :width: 200
- :alt: OPNFV
- :align: left
-
*************************************
Yardstick Test Case Description TC020
*************************************
+
+.. _DPDKpktgen: https://github.com/Pktgen/Pktgen-DPDK/
+.. _rfc2544: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2544.txt
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Network Performance |
-+==============+==============================================================+
+| |
++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|test case id | OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TC0020_Virtual Traffic Classifier |
| | Instantiation Test |
| | |
| | hence it needs to be installed by the user. |
| | |
+--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
-|references | DPDK Pktgen: https://github.com/Pktgen/Pktgen-DPDK/ |
+|references | DPDKpktgen_ |
+| | |
| | ETSI-NFV-TST001 |
-| | RFC 2544 https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2544.txt |
+| | |
+| | rfc2544_ |
| | |
+--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|applicability | Test can be configured with different flavors, vNIC type |
-.. _DPDKpktgen: https://github.com/Pktgen/Pktgen-DPDK/
-.. _rfc2544: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2544.txt
-
*************************************
Yardstick Test Case Description TC021
*************************************
+
+.. _DPDKpktgen: https://github.com/Pktgen/Pktgen-DPDK/
+.. _rfc2544: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2544.txt
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Network Performance |
-+==============+==============================================================+
+| |
++--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|test case id | OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TC0021_Virtual Traffic Classifier |
| | Instantiation Test in Presence of Noisy Neighbours |
| | |
| | |
+--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|references | DPDK Pktgen: DPDK Pktgen: DPDKpktgen_ |
+| | |
| | ETSI-NFV-TST001 |
+| | |
| | RFC 2544: rfc2544_ |
| | |
+--------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
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