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IPv6 Benchmarking Methodology

Ciprian Popoviciu, Ahmed Hamza, Gunter Van de Velde, Diego

Dugatkin, Bill Kine

IETF 66, March 21th 2006Montreal, PQ

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Agenda Document Overview Changes made based on WG feedback Going forward

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Document Goals: Address a very acute and growing need for

recommendations on evaluating network element performance for IPv6 deployments

A complement rather than a replacement of RFC2544 in accordance with BMWG strategy

Provide the additional, IPv6 specific guidelines to IP benchmarking methodology while indicating the aspects of RFC2544 that are IP version independent

Maintain the structure and spirit of RFC2544.

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WG feedback integrated in the current version: Refer to RFC1242 for terminology – no specific

terminology required for this document Removed Section 3 as it had minor differences with

respect to RFC2544 Re-write of Section 4 to reference the test setup described

in RFC2544 Re-write of Section 4.1. Refer to RFC2544 appendix for

Ethernet frame sizes and added an appendix containing the frame sizes for SONET

Removed tunneling

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WG feedback integrated in the current version (Cont): Made an explicit request for IANA address space to

be assigned for Benchmarking Removed the recommendation to use IMIX Made recommendations for benchmarking with

IPv4 only, with IPv6 only and with a combination of the two traffic types

Removed the strict requirement for monitoring certain device resources however we maintained a recommendation on such a practice.

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WG feedback integrated in the current version (Cont): Hop-by-Hop EH – An optional test set for evaluating

the impact of this EH on network element resources will be included

Benchmarking for each EH type individually – The only EH that requires individual evaluation is the Hop-by-Hop. Individual evaluation of the other EHs would provide no additional information to the data obtained from tests using chained EHs.

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Interest in the document: Other WGs are actively providing feedback and

recommendations We were approached by several organizations that

expressed interest in applying these guidelines towards evaluating products as well as organizations interested in implementing it in their products.

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Proposed Next Steps: Adopt the document as a WG work item Address future comments and suggestions

IPv6 benchmarking guidelines are extremely important due to the increasing interest in IPv6 deployment throughout the industry

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THANK YOU!