Internet Engineering Task Force W. Wang
Internet-Draft Zhejiang Gongshang University
Updates: 6053 (if approved) K. Ogawa
Intended status: Informational NTT Corporation
Expires: November 24, 2013 E.H. Haleplidis
University of Patras
M. Gao
Hangzhou BAUD Networks
J. Hadi Salim
Mojatatu Networks
May 23, 2013
Interoperability Report for Forwarding and Control Element Separation
(ForCES)
draft-ietf-forces-interop-08
Abstract
This document captured results of the second Forwarding and Control
Element Separation (ForCES) interoperability test which took place on
February 24-25, 2011 in the Internet Technology Lab (ITL) of Zhejiang
Gongshang University, China. RFC 6053 has reported the results of
the first ForCES interoperability test, and this document updates RFC
6053 by providing further interoperability results.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. ForCES Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2. ForCES FE Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.3. Transport Mapping Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.4. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.1. Date, Location, and Participants . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2. Testbed Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.2.1. Participants Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.2.2. Testbed Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3. Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.1. Scenario 1 - LFB Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.2. Scenario 2 - TML with IPSec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.3. Scenario 3 - CE High Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.4. Scenario 4 - Packet forwarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4. Test Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.1. LFB Operation Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.2. TML with IPSec Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.3. CE High Availability Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.4. Packet Forwarding Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5. Discussions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5.1. On Data Encapsulation Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
6. Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
7. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
8. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
9. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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