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diff --git a/docs/testing/user/userguide/vFW/RELEASE_NOTES.rst b/docs/testing/user/userguide/vFW/RELEASE_NOTES.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 540f671d..00000000 --- a/docs/testing/user/userguide/vFW/RELEASE_NOTES.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,92 +0,0 @@ -.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International -.. License. -.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 -.. (c) OPNFV, National Center of Scientific Research "Demokritos" and others. - -========================================================= -vFW - Release Notes -========================================================= - -Introduction -================ - -This is a beta release for Sample Virtual Firewall VNF. -This vFW can application can be run independently (refer INSTALL.rst). - -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. - -Feature for this release -=========================== -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 - - SYN-flood protection via Synproxy* for TCP - - UDP, TCP and ICMP protocol pass-through - - CLI based enable/disable connection tracking, synproxy, basic packet - filtering - - L2L3 stack support for ARP/ICMP handling - - ARP (request, response, gratuitous) - - ICMP (terminal echo, echo response, passthrough) - - ICMPv6 and ND (Neighbor Discovery) - - Hardware and Software Load Balancing - - Multithread support - - Multiple physical port support - -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 - -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 - -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 - -References -============= -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 |