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% document. What are the highlights of your work.
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% General / Review
% Intro
The objective of implementing high speed NAT64 in P4 has been
achieved. The implementation at hand has been shown to be portable
between 2 different P4 targets. It should be portable with minor
target specific changes to faster hardware to support NAT64 at much
higher line speeds, without any logic changes.
achieved.
Our algorithm uses the IPv4-Compatible IPv6 Address~\cite{rfc4291} to
embed IPv4 addresses. However RFC6052~\cite{rfc6052} defines different
embeddings depending on the prefix size. A future version should
support these schemes to be compatible to other implementations.
PMTU
handling error cases
No fragmentation
No address / mac learning
supporting migration to IPv6 only networks
% our implementation!
Our implementation has been shown to be portable
between 2 different P4 targets and we expect it to be portable
to other P4 targets, potentially at much higher speeds.
Our in-network solution allows novel translations
without involving external routers, without involving
external routers.\footnote{Compare
figures \ref{fig:v6v4standard} and \ref{fig:v6v4mixed}.}
We expect this to supporting migration to IPv6 only networks
% P4
P4 has been proven for us as a suitable programming language for
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large scale projects. Even with the current state drawbacks, P4 is a
very convincing language that has wide range of applications due to
its protocol independence and easy to understand architecture.
% NetPFGA
The NetFPGA platform is a good showcase for the capabilities of
P4, demonstrating almost line speed P4 programs.
However the supporting code immaturity, logging ambiguity
and enormous complexity of the development process.
Very time intensive development due to usability problems and
uncertainty of functionality (compare sections
\ref{results:netpfga:usability} and \ref{results:netpfga:stability}).
While the port to NetPFGA was significantly more effort then expected,
the learnings of the different layers were very much appreciated / liked
% Outlook OUTLOOK What are the consequences of your work for future work?
The availability of protocol independent programmable network
equipment opens up many possibilities for in network
programming. While this thesis focused on NAT64, the accompanying
technology DNS64~\cite{rfc6147} could also be implemented in P4, thus
completing the translation mechanism.
Proxies / higher level protocols could be next level
% NetPFGA
In our opinion, the
P4/NetFPGA platform is a good showcase for the capabilities of
P4, demonstrating near line speed P4 programs with good capabilities
of demonstrating scientific research.
However, the supporting code toolchain shows strong weaknesses that
render productive deployements difficult.
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% Outlook
Add helper in P4 to support checksum analysis a frequent problem and
helper
Allow ICMP6 option parsing: specify xtimes 64 bit blocks resulting in
an array
While the project concluded successfully, there are a variety of
possible improvements to our work as well to the used toolchains.
Adding support for passing on meta information to controller: key or
table
% Implementation
The implementation of our algorithm uses the IPv4-Compatible
IPv6 Address~\cite{rfc4291} to embed IPv4 addresses.
However RFC6052~\cite{rfc6052} defines different
embeddings depending on the prefix size. A future version should
not only support more flexible embeddings, but also consider more in
depth translation like ICMP/ICMP6 specifics.
Support a meta language to define used types and/or export to popular languages.
Long term supporting python3 would be helpful. P4OS.
% P4
The P4 language has shown maturity, but the usability and ease of use
of the provided toolchains can be significantly improved. Additionally
we envision a stronger tie between the different tools in the P4
environment, like a collection of libraries and modules that could
form something on the line of a ``P4OS''. This operating system could
spawn over network switches with P4, provide a coherent library and
define data definitions that can be used in various programming
languages bindings.
% NetFPGA
The NetFPGA, from the hardware point of view,! is a very
interesting hardware platform. Reducing the difficulties
we experienced with the surrounding toolchain and making
development experience more consistent has the potential to not only
make NetFPGA, but also the who set of P4 hardware more interesting for
developers.
- react on FIN/RST (?) -- could be an addition
P4os - reusable code
Future work: session handling
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