The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Benchmarking Methodology for Stateful NATxy Gateways using RFC 4814 Pseudorandom Port Numbers' (draft-ietf-bmwg-benchmarking-stateful-09.txt) as Informational RFC
This document is the product of the Benchmarking Methodology Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Warren Kumari and Mahesh Jethanandani. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bmwg-benchmarking-stateful/ Technical Summary RFC 2544 has defined a benchmarking methodology for network interconnect devices. RFC 5180 addressed IPv6 specificities and it also provided a technology update but excluded IPv6 transition technologies. RFC 8219 addressed IPv6 transition technologies, including stateful NAT64. However, none of them discussed how to apply RFC 4814 pseudorandom port numbers to any stateful NATxy (NAT44, NAT64, NAT66) technologies. This document discusses why using pseudorandom port numbers with stateful NATxy gateways is a difficult problem. It recommends a solution limiting the port number ranges and using two test phases (phase 1 and phase 2). It is shown how the classic performance measurement procedures (e.g. throughput, frame loss rate, latency, etc.) can be carried out. New performance metrics and measurement procedures are also defined for measuring maximum connection establishment rate, connection tear-down rate, and connection tracking table capacity. Working Group Summary There was strong consensus, with broad agreement and no controversy. As the shepherd says: "No threats to appeal and no indications of extreme discontent. Or discontent in general." Document Quality The document is clear and easy to read. It contains a snippet of code for test results, and numerous test set up diagrams outlined in ASCII. Personnel Sarah Banks is DS. Warren "Ace" Kumari is RAD!!!1!!11! _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
