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| author |   Anand B Jyoti <anand.b.jyoti@intel.com> | 2017-07-04 10:26:39 +0530 |
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| committer |   Deepak S <deepak.s@linux.intel.com> | 2017-07-14 06:23:48 +0000 |
| commit | 29bfcbc9b8c1d9b1ebe62e3170524f0c53467110 (patch) | |
| tree | d341463204cbf96d3703e7bfaa1c14fc5c6f2691 /docs/vFW/RELEASE_NOTES.rst | |
| parent | 82416b375a275837689cddfd1782d82996fecaca (diff) | |
docs: Update install and release docs for DPDK migration support
JIRA: SAMPLEVNF-48
Updating INSTALL.rst and RELEASE_NOTES.rst for DPDK migration
support. The additional files are created to make it as per the
opnfv document standard to generate the html files.
Change-Id: I4b0af4c3afeef91fc806285b02c0ce47d61ebfbd
Signed-off-by: Anand B Jyoti <anand.b.jyoti@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/vFW/RELEASE_NOTES.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/vFW/RELEASE_NOTES.rst | 66 |
1 files changed, 40 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/docs/vFW/RELEASE_NOTES.rst b/docs/vFW/RELEASE_NOTES.rst index 0c880042..540f671d 100644 --- a/docs/vFW/RELEASE_NOTES.rst +++ b/docs/vFW/RELEASE_NOTES.rst @@ -4,24 +4,25 @@ .. (c) OPNFV, National Center of Scientific Research "Demokritos" and others. ========================================================= -Virtual Firewall - vFW +vFW - Release Notes ========================================================= -1. Introduction +Introduction ================ This is a beta release for Sample Virtual Firewall VNF. This vFW can application can be run independently (refer INSTALL.rst). -2. User Guide +User Guide =============== Refer to README.rst for further details on vFW, HLD, features supported, test plan. For build configurations and execution requisites please refer to INSTALL.rst. -3. Feature for this release +Feature for this release =========================== -This release supports following features as part of vFW: +This release supports following features as part of vFW + - Basic packet filtering (malformed packets, IP fragments) - Connection tracking for TCP and UDP - Access Control List for rule based policy enforcement @@ -37,42 +38,55 @@ This release supports following features as part of vFW: - Multithread support - Multiple physical port support -4. System requirements - OS and kernel version +System requirements - OS and kernel version ============================================== This is supported on Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16.04 and kernel version less than 4.5 VNFs on BareMetal support: - OS: Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04 LTS - kernel: < 4.5 - http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/ - Download/Install the image: ubuntu-16.04.1-server-amd64.iso - - VNFs on Standalone Hypervisor - HOST OS: Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04 LTS - http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/ - Download/Install the image: ubuntu-16.04.1-server-amd64.iso - - OVS (DPDK) - 2.5 - - kernel: < 4.5 - - Hypervisor - KVM - - VM OS - Ubuntu 16.04/Ubuntu 14.04 - -5. Known Bugs and limitations + OS: Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04 LTS + kernel: < 4.5 + http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/ + Download/Install the image: ubuntu-16.04.1-server-amd64.iso + + VNFs on Standalone Hypervisor: + HOST OS: Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04 LTS + http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/ + Download/Install the image: ubuntu-16.04.1-server-amd64.iso + + - OVS (DPDK) - 2.5 + - kernel: < 4.5 + - Hypervisor - KVM + - VM OS - Ubuntu 16.04/Ubuntu 14.04 + +Known Bugs and limitations ============================= + - Hadware Load Balancer feature is supported on fortville nic FW version 4.53 and below. - Hardware Checksum offload is not supported for IPv6 traffic. - vFW on sriov is tested upto 4 threads - Http Multiple clients/server with HWLB is not working -6. Future Work +Future Work ============== Following would be possible enhancement functionalities + - Automatic enable/disable of synproxy - Support TCP timestamps with synproxy - FTP ALG integration - Performance optimization on different platforms -7. References +References ============= -Following links provides additional information - .. _QUICKSTART: http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-16.04/linux_gsg/quick_start.html - .. _DPDKGUIDE: http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-16.04/prog_guide/index.html +Following links provides additional information for differenet version of DPDKs + +.. _QUICKSTART: + http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-16.04/linux_gsg/quick_start.html + http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-16.11/linux_gsg/quick_start.html + http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-17.02/linux_gsg/quick_start.html + http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-17.05/linux_gsg/quick_start.html + +.. _DPDKGUIDE: + http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-16.04/prog_guide/index.html + http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-16.11/prog_guide/index.html + http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-17.02/prog_guide/index.html + http://dpdk.org/doc/guides-17.05/prog_guide/index.html |