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 --- .../user/userguide/vCGNAPT/RELEASE_NOTES.rst | 90 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 90 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/testing/user/userguide/vCGNAPT/RELEASE_NOTES.rst (limited to 'docs/testing/user/userguide/vCGNAPT/RELEASE_NOTES.rst') diff --git a/docs/testing/user/userguide/vCGNAPT/RELEASE_NOTES.rst b/docs/testing/user/userguide/vCGNAPT/RELEASE_NOTES.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a776a54d --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/testing/user/userguide/vCGNAPT/RELEASE_NOTES.rst @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +.. 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. + +========================================================= +vCGNAPT - Release Notes +========================================================= + +Introduction +================ +This is the beta release for vCGNAPT VNF. +vCGNAPT application can be run independently (refer INSTALL.rst). + +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. + +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 + +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 +============================= +- Hadware Load 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 + +Future Work +============== +- SCTP passthrough support +- Multi-homing support +- 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