IPv6%20Benchmarking%20Methodology

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IPv6 Benchmarking Methodology

• Ciprian Popoviciu, Ahmed Hamza, Gunter Van de
  Velde, Diego Dugatkin, Bill Kine

IETF 66, March 21th 2006 Montreal, PQ
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• Agenda
• Document Overview
• Changes made based on WG feedback
• Going forward

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• Document Goals
• Address a very acute and growing need for
  recommendations on evaluating network element
  performance for IPv6 deployments
• A complement rather than a replacement of RFC2544
  in accordance with BMWG strategy
• Provide the additional, IPv6 specific guidelines
  to IP benchmarking methodology while indicating
  the aspects of RFC2544 that are IP version
  independent
• Maintain the structure and spirit of RFC2544.

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• WG feedback integrated in the current version
• Refer to RFC1242 for terminology no specific
  terminology required for this document
• Removed Section 3 as it had minor differences
  with respect to RFC2544
• Re-write of Section 4 to reference the test setup
  described in RFC2544
• Re-write of Section 4.1. Refer to RFC2544
  appendix for Ethernet frame sizes and added an
  appendix containing the frame sizes for SONET
• Removed tunneling

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• WG feedback integrated in the current version
  (Cont)
• Made an explicit request for IANA address space
  to be assigned for Benchmarking
• Removed the recommendation to use IMIX
• Made recommendations for benchmarking with IPv4
  only, with IPv6 only and with a combination of
  the two traffic types
• Removed the strict requirement for monitoring
  certain device resources however we maintained a
  recommendation on such a practice.

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• WG feedback integrated in the current version
  (Cont)
• Hop-by-Hop EH An optional test set for
  evaluating the impact of this EH on network
  element resources will be included
• Benchmarking for each EH type individually The
  only EH that requires individual evaluation is
  the Hop-by-Hop. Individual evaluation of the
  other EHs would provide no additional information
  to the data obtained from tests using chained EHs.

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• Interest in the document
• Other WGs are actively providing feedback and
  recommendations
• We were approached by several organizations that
  expressed interest in applying these guidelines
  towards evaluating products as well as
  organizations interested in implementing it in
  their products.

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IPv6 benchmarking guidelines are extremely
important due to the increasing interest in IPv6
deployment throughout the industry

• Proposed Next Steps
• Adopt the document as a WG work item
• Address future comments and suggestions

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• draft-popoviciu-bmwg-ipv6benchmarking-01.txt
• THANK YOU!