VPP Features¶

VPP is tested in a number of data plane feature configurations across different forwarding modes. Following sections list features tested.

ACL Security-Groups¶

Both stateless and stateful access control lists (ACL), also known as security-groups, are supported by VPP.

Following ACL configurations are tested for MAC switching with L2 bridge-domains:

l2bdbasemaclrn-iacl{E}sl-{F}flows: Input stateless ACL, with {E} entries and {F} flows.
l2bdbasemaclrn-oacl{E}sl-{F}flows: Output stateless ACL, with {E} entries and {F} flows.
l2bdbasemaclrn-iacl{E}sf-{F}flows: Input stateful ACL, with {E} entries and {F} flows.
l2bdbasemaclrn-oacl{E}sf-{F}flows: Output stateful ACL, with {E} entries and {F} flows.

Following ACL configurations are tested with IPv4 routing:

ip4base-iacl{E}sl-{F}flows: Input stateless ACL, with {E} entries and {F} flows.
ip4base-oacl{E}sl-{F}flows: Output stateless ACL, with {E} entries and {F} flows.
ip4base-iacl{E}sf-{F}flows: Input stateful ACL, with {E} entries and {F} flows.
ip4base-oacl{E}sf-{F}flows: Output stateful ACL, with {E} entries and {F} flows.

ACL tests are executed with the following combinations of ACL entries and number of flows:

ACL entry definitions
- flow non-matching deny entry: (src-ip4, dst-ip4, src-port, dst-port).
- flow matching permit ACL entry: (src-ip4, dst-ip4).
{E} - number of non-matching deny ACL entries, {E} = [1, 10, 50].
{F} - number of UDP flows with different tuple (src-ip4, dst-ip4, src-port, dst-port), {F} = [100, 10k, 100k].
All {E}x{F} combinations are tested per ACL type, total of 9.

MAC-IP binding ACLs are tested for MAC switching with L2 bridge-domains:

l2bdbasemaclrn-macip-iacl{E}sl-{F}flows: Input stateless ACL, with {E} entries and {F} flows.

MAC-IP ACL tests are executed with the following combinations of ACL entries and number of flows:

ACL entry definitions
- flow non-matching deny entry: (dst-ip4, dst-mac, bit-mask)
- flow matching permit ACL entry: (dst-ip4, dst-mac, bit-mask)
{E} - number of non-matching deny ACL entries, {E} = [1, 10, 50]
{F} - number of UDP flows with different tuple (dst-ip4, dst-mac), {F} = [100, 10k, 100k]
All {E}x{F} combinations are tested per ACL type, total of 9.

NAT44 is tested in baseline and scale configurations with IPv4 routing:

ip4base-nat44: baseline test with single NAT entry (addr, port), single UDP flow.
ip4base-udpsrcscale{U}-nat44: baseline test with {U} NAT entries (addr, {U}ports), {U}=15.
ip4scale{R}-udpsrcscale{U}-nat44: scale tests with {R}*{U} NAT entries ({R}addr, {U}ports), {R}=[100, 1k, 2k, 4k], {U}=15.