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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.
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vFW - Release Notes
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Introduction
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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
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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
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