RE: [bmwg] Meeting Minutes Review: IPsec Terminology
"Talbert, Brian" <brian.talbert@mci.com> Wed, 29 October 2003 15:32 UTC
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From: "Talbert, Brian" <brian.talbert@mci.com>
Subject: RE: [bmwg] Meeting Minutes Review: IPsec Terminology
To: 'Tim Van Herck' <herckt@cisco.com>, sporetsky@quarrytech.com
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>>-----Original Message----- >>From: bmwg-admin@ietf.org [mailto:bmwg-admin@ietf.org] On >>Behalf Of Tim Van Herck >>Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 6:20 PM >>To: sporetsky@quarrytech.com >>Cc: bmwg@ietf.org; ipsec-term@external.cisco.com >>Subject: Re: [bmwg] Meeting Minutes Review: IPsec Terminology >> ... >>1. Imix is a strict defined packetmix >> - poses problems with newly introduced links and also IPv6, it >> will work with old data >> - has the advantage of providing an apples-to-apples >> comparison This does provide apples-to-apples comparison of device performance but as has already been suggested, one of the primary drivers for an IMIX number is for marketing/sales ease of use. And as such the number is not just used to compare one vendor to another but also to provide some notion of customer experience for a given service. So, the strictly defined mix does start to become apples-to-orange from the perspective of trying to understand how a given device will perform for a given application. Of particular note in this discussion is for VPN applications, for at least in my experience the Ipsec devices that we benchmark are used to build VPNs and to forwad data for enterprise applications securelty across the Internet and not merely to send generalized Internet data through an Ipsec tunnel. >>2. Imix is -a- mix, user reports what it is >> - hard to compare results >> - probably will still use the old style IMIX >>distributions If IMIX must be defined at all this would probably get my vote as it provides the freedom to create custome mixes that suite the application of the device. Now my perspective is that of the service provider who is characterizing service expectations and it is not the perspective of an equipment manufacturer, who could conceivably create a mix that is favors the nature of their device rather than any particular application (we already see vendors using simple IMIX streams in the VPN space that omit the 1500 byte packet in favor of a 1400 byte packet because it exposes the inefficiency with which they reassemble fragments). So this is an admitted down side but I don't see a more positive approach other than perhaps to standardize many different mixes suitable for a variety of applications, but I don't see this as being feasible. >>3. Imix is a packetsweep (after renaming the mix) >> - good chance of comparable results >> - can be adjusted to the needs of the network >> - exercises the full datapath >> - more futureproof One of the downsides to this is that you will essentially create a strictly defined packet mix, with all of it's downsides. For instance, if as suggested you sweep from min to max and do so in fixed n-byte increments, you may end up yielding results that unfairly favor one vendor over another simply based upon the nature of their internal architecture, which may for instance use n-byte cells to move data chuncks through the switching fabric. Modify the sweep to n+1 increments and you get vastly different results. So how do you choose n? There are potential solutions, like randomizing the packet size, etc., but .... >>Let the voting begin ! ... I still vote for number 2, simply define the general concept of a mixed packet stream (in a general benchmarking terminology document so that the definition carries across all BMWG efforts) and require that the stream be clearly defined to include not only packet size distribution but the interleaving pattern and any other parameters that may further characterize the nature of the stream. Brian Talbert _______________________________________________ bmwg mailing list bmwg@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/bmwg
- Re: [bmwg] Meeting Minutes Review: IPsec Terminol… Kevin Dubray
- [bmwg] Meeting Minutes Review: IPsec Terminology Michele Bustos
- RE: [bmwg] Meeting Minutes Review: IPsec Terminol… Talbert, Brian
- RE: [bmwg] Meeting Minutes Review: IPsec Terminol… sporetsky
- RE: [bmwg] Meeting Minutes Review: IPsec Terminol… Merike Kaeo
- RE: [bmwg] Meeting Minutes Review: IPsec Terminol… sporetsky
- Re: [bmwg] Meeting Minutes Review: IPsec Terminol… Tim Van Herck
- RE: [bmwg] Meeting Minutes Review: IPsec Terminol… Scott Bradner
- Re: [bmwg] Meeting Minutes Review: IPsec Terminol… Tim Van Herck
- RE: [bmwg] Meeting Minutes Review: IPsec Terminol… Merike Kaeo
- RE: [bmwg] Meeting Minutes Review: IPsec Terminol… Michele Bustos
- RE: [bmwg] Meeting Minutes Review: IPsec Terminol… Michele Bustos
- RE: [bmwg] Meeting Minutes Review: IPsec Terminol… Michele Bustos
- Re: [bmwg] Meeting Minutes Review: IPsec Terminol… Tim Van Herck
- Re: [bmwg] Meeting Minutes Review: IPsec Terminol… Scott Bradner
- Re: [bmwg] Meeting Minutes Review: IPsec Terminol… Tim Van Herck
- Re: [bmwg] Meeting Minutes Review: IPsec Terminol… Scott Bradner
- Re: [bmwg] Meeting Minutes Review: IPsec Terminol… Tim Van Herck
- RE: [bmwg] Meeting Minutes Review: IPsec Terminol… Sunil Kalidindi
- RE: [bmwg] Meeting Minutes Review: IPsec Terminol… Talbert, Brian
- Re: [bmwg] Meeting Minutes Review: IPsec Terminol… Tim Van Herck
- Re: [bmwg] Meeting Minutes Review: IPsec Terminol… Al Morton
- Re: [bmwg] Meeting Minutes Review: IPsec Terminol… Al Morton