Network Address Translation using a Programmable Dataplane Processor
Resumo
A short-term solution for the depletion of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and scaling problems in network routing is the reuse of IP address by placing Network Address Translators (NAT) at the borders of stub domains. In this article, we propose an implementation of NAT using Programming ProtocolIndependent Packet Processors (P4) language, taking advantage of its features such as target-agnostic dataplane programmability. Through the MACSAD framework, we generate a software switch that achieves high performance with the support of different hardware (H/W) and Software (S/W) platforms. The main contributions of this paper relate to the performance evaluation results of the NAT implementation using P4 language with MACSAD compiler.
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Egevang, K. B. and Francis, P. (1994). The ip network address translator (nat). RFC 1631, RFC Editor. [link].
Han, B., Gopalakrishnan, V., Ji, L., and Lee, S. (2015). Network function virtualization: Challenges and opportunities for innovations. IEEE Communications Magazine, 53(2):90–97.
Hwang, J., Ramakrishnan, K. K., and Wood, T. (2015). Netvm: High performance and flexible networking using virtualization on commodity platforms. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 12(1):34–47.
Niu, Z., Xu, H., Tian, Y., Liu, L., Wang, P., and Li, Z. (2016). Benchmarking nfv software dataplanes. CoRR, abs/1605.05843.
OpenDataPlane (2013). OpenDataPlane.org. [link]. Accessed: 2018-01-30.
Palkar, S., Lan, C., Han, S., Jang, K., Panda, A., Ratnasamy, S., Rizzo, L., and Shenker, S. (2015). E2: A Framework for NFV Applications. SOSP ’15. ACM, New York, USA.
Patra, P., Rothenberg, C., and Pongracz, G. (2017). MACSAD: High performance dataplane applications on the move. IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing, HPSR, 2017-June.
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Turull, D., Sjödin, P., and Olsson, R. (2016). Pktgen: Measuring performance on high speed networks. Computer communications, 82:39–48.
Publicado
22/07/2018
Como Citar
VALLEJO, Juan Sebastian Mejia; FEFERMAN, Daniel Lazkani; ROTHENBERG, Christian Esteve.
Network Address Translation using a Programmable Dataplane Processor. In: WORKSHOP EM DESEMPENHO DE SISTEMAS COMPUTACIONAIS E DE COMUNICAÇÃO (WPERFORMANCE), 17. , 2018, Natal.
Anais [...].
Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2018
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p. 268-273.
ISSN 2595-6167.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wperformance.2018.3333.
