Network Address Translation using a Programmable Dataplane Processor

  • Juan Sebastian Mejia Vallejo
  • Daniel Lazkani Feferman
  • Christian Esteve Rothenberg

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.

Publicado
26/07/2018
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 . ISSN 2595-6167. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wperformance.2018.3333.