From 60c12419f0a1f792a632ec008c68c5924321ebb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Deepak S Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 08:53:14 -0700 Subject: Moving the current docs to userguide Change-Id: I500d70b7ed2a17e21548a27810ac7e51e44b7841 Signed-off-by: Deepak S --- docs/testing/user/userguide/vACL/RELEASE_NOTES.rst | 81 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 81 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/testing/user/userguide/vACL/RELEASE_NOTES.rst (limited to 'docs/testing/user/userguide/vACL/RELEASE_NOTES.rst') diff --git a/docs/testing/user/userguide/vACL/RELEASE_NOTES.rst b/docs/testing/user/userguide/vACL/RELEASE_NOTES.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c947a371 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/testing/user/userguide/vACL/RELEASE_NOTES.rst @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ +.. 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. + +========================================================= +vACL - Release Notes +========================================================= + +Introduction +=================== + +This is a beta release for Sample Virtual ACL VNF. +This vACL can application can be run independently (refer INSTALL.rst). + +User Guide +=============== +Refer to README.rst for further details on vACL, HLD, features supported, test +plan. For build configurations and execution requisites please refer to +INSTALL.rst. + +Feature for this release +=========================== +The vACL VNF currently supports the following functionality: + • CLI based Run-time rule configuration.(Add,Delete,List,Display,Clear,Modify) + • Ipv4 and ipv6 standard 5 tuple packet Selector support. + • Multithread support + • Multiple physical port support + • Hardware and Software Load Balancing + • L2L3 stack support for ARP/ICMP handling + • ARP (request, response, gratuitous) + • ICMP (terminal echo, echo response, passthrough) + • ICMPv6 and ND (Neighbor Discovery) + +System requirements - OS and kernel version +============================================== +This is supported on Ubuntu 14.04 and 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 +============================= + - Hardware Load Balancer feature is supported on Fortville nic ACL + version 4.53 and below. + - Hardware Checksum offload is not supported for IPv6 traffic. + - vACL on sriov is tested upto 4 threads + +Future Work +============== +Following would be possible enhancements + - 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 -- cgit 1.2.3-korg