BGP Data-Plane Benchmarking Applicable to Modern Routers

Rajiv Papneja Ilya Varlashkin Bhavani Parise Dean Lee Sue Hares 26Jul 2012 BMWG@IETF84 1

Background/ Current Status

• Terminology for Benchmarking BGP Device Convergence in the (RFC 4098) / June 2005 • Two complementing BGP Methodology drafts in progress • Draft-1 focusing on the BGP Data Plane convergence was posted prior IETF 80 • draft-papneja-bgp-basic-dp-convergence-03 • Author team: Rajiv Papneja, Bhavani Parise, Sue Hares, Ilya Varlashkin • Contributors: Deal Lee, Eric Brendal, Mohan Nanduri, Jay Karthik • Draft-2 focuses on Data-plane convergence on modern routers, which have local restoration capability was posted prior to IETF 82 • draft-varlashkin-router-conv-bench-00 • • Author Team: Ilya Varlashkin, Rajiv Papneja, Bhavani Parise, Dean Lee Reviewer: Tara Van Unen 26Jul 2012 BMWG@IETF84 2

Current Status & Action Items from IETF83

 Obtained feedback from multiple Service Providers. Various tests from the draft termed as ‘Valuable’ and ‘Important’ by the Providers  Presented and solicited feedback from IDR  Performed Benchmarking tests based on the methodology from the draft and Presented the Results to BMWG  Current version of draft addresses comments from prior IETFs and comments from WG list  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-papneja-bgp-basic-dp-convergence-03 26Jul 2012 BMWG@IETF84 3

Feedback Specifics for Draft-1

 Tests considered by Verizon as Valuable and Important and have been demonstrated to them  Review from Compass, yielded in PIC test cases  Positive feedback and support on scope and test coverage from architect at FT-Orange  Contributions and Support from IDR Chair  This draft generated interest for collaboration with other draft work being pursued in IDR (gs-vpn-scaling) 26Jul 2012 BMWG@IETF84 4

Current Status & Action Items

• For Draft-1:     http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-papneja-bgp-basic-dp-convergence-03 Obtained more positive feedback from additional Service Providers Can we agree on approach and direction?

Agree on WG-item adoption  For Draft-2:   http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-varlashkin-router-conv-bench-00 Lack of Capabilities in Protocol Simulators hindering certain test scenarios. Alternative Setup being explored  Inputs welcome!

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