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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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Virtual ACL - vACL
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1. Introduction
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This is a beta release for Sample Virtual ACL VNF.
This vACL can application can be run independently (refer INSTALL.rst).
2. 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.
3. Feature for this release
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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)
4. System requirements - OS and kernel version
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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
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- 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
6. Future Work
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Following would be possible enhancements
- Performance optimization on different platforms
7. References
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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
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