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+.. 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.
+
+=========================================================
+Carrier Grade Network Address Port Translation - vCGNAPT
+=========================================================
+
+1. Introduction
+================
+This is the beta release for vCGNAPT VNF.
+vCGNAPT application can be run independently (refer INSTALL.rst).
+
+2. User Guide
+===============
+Refer to README.rst for further details on vCGNAPT, HLD, features supported, test
+plan. For build configurations and execution requisites please refer to
+INSTALL.rst.
+
+3. Feature for this release
+===========================
+This release supports following features as part of vCGNAPT:
+- vCGNAPT can run as a standalone application on bare-metal linux server or on a
+ virtual machine using SRIOV and OVS dpdk.
+- Static NAT
+- Dynamic NAT
+- Static NAPT
+- Dynamic NAPT
+- ARP (request, response, gratuitous)
+- ICMP (terminal echo, echo response, passthrough)
+- ICMPv6 and ND (Neighbor Discovery)
+- UDP, TCP and ICMP protocol passthrough
+- Multithread support
+- Multiple physical port support
+- Limiting max ports per client
+- Limiting max clients per public IP address
+- Live Session tracking to NAT flow
+- PCP support
+- NAT64
+- ALG SIP
+- ALG FTP
+
+4. 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
+=============================
+- Hadware Loab Balancer feature is supported on fortville nic FW version 4.53 and below.
+- L4 UDP Replay is used to capture throughput for dynamic cgnapt
+- Hardware Checksum offload is not supported for IPv6 traffic.
+- CGNAPT on sriov is tested till 4 threads
+
+6. Future Work
+==============
+- SCTP passthrough support
+- Multi-homing support
+- Performance optimization on different platforms
+
+7. 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