Application User Guide

• 1. OVS Offload
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Architecture
    • 1.2.1. Packet Flow - Wire-VM Communication and vice versa
  • 1.3. Getting the sources and compile
  • 1.4. Setting up the Environment
    • 1.4.1. Binding required devices
  • 1.5. Launching the application
    • 1.5.1. Understanding the output
    • 1.5.2. Understanding different nodes
  • 1.6. Various Packet Flow Scenarios (with demo)
    • 1.6.1. Wire-VM Communication
• 2. VirtIO-l2fwd
  • 2.1. Setting up EP environment
    • 2.1.1. Setup SDP PF/VF count in EBF menu
    • 2.1.2. Setup huge pages for DPDK application
    • 2.1.3. Bind required DMA devices to vfio-pci
    • 2.1.4. Bind required RPM VF’s to vfio-pci
    • 2.1.5. Bind PEM BAR4 and DPI BAR0 platform devices to vfio-platform
    • 2.1.6. Bind required SDP RVU devices to vfio-pci
  • 2.2. Running the EP firmware application
    • 2.2.1. EAL Options
    • 2.2.2. Application Options
    • 2.2.3. Example EP firmware command
  • 2.3. Setting up Host environment
• 3. Secgw-graph
  • 3.1. Features
  • 3.2. Setting up environment
    • 3.2.1. Setup of SDP and RPM devices
    • 3.2.2. Setup huge pages for DPDK application
    • 3.2.3. Bind required RPM VF’s to vfio-pci
    • 3.2.4. Bind required SDP VF’s to vfio-pci
    • 3.2.5. Bind required CPT VF to vfio-pci
    • 3.2.6. Bind required Inline device PF to vfio-pci
    • 3.2.7. Setting up Host environment
  • 3.3. Running secgw-graph
    • 3.3.1. EAL Options
    • 3.3.2. Application Options
    • 3.3.3. Application bootup logs
    • 3.3.4. CLI terminal
  • 3.4. CLI commands
  • 3.5. Running as IPv4 router
    • 3.5.1. Configuration
    • 3.5.2. ping host2 IP from host1
    • 3.5.3. How it works
    • 3.5.4. Resolving Partial Routes
  • 3.6. Running as IPsec gateway
    • 3.6.1. Configuration
    • 3.6.2. Check IPsec configuration
    • 3.6.3. ping host2 IP from host1
  • 3.7. Planned Features
  • 3.8. Known Issues
• 4. Universal SmartNIC Turnkey App
  • 4.1. Introduction
    • 4.1.1. Feature List
  • 4.2. Getting the sources and compile
    • 4.2.1. Binding required devices
  • 4.3. Launching the application
    • 4.3.1. Application Options
    • 4.3.2. Example Commands
    • 4.3.3. Supported CLI commands
    • 4.3.4. Runtime configuration
    • 4.3.5. Application running demo
• 5. FD.io Vector Packet Processing (VPP)
  • 5.1. What is VPP?
  • 5.2. VPP Accelerations
  • 5.3. Marvell’s High-Performance VPP for OCTEON
    • 5.3.1. Installing and Running VPP for Packet I/O Acceleration Demo
    • 5.3.2. Running VPP for Crypto offload Demo
    • 5.3.3. VPP FD.io Documentation
  • 5.4. VPP Usage and Integrations
  • 5.5. Enhancing VPP IPsec offload with Strongswan Integration
    • 5.5.1. Strongswan Integration
    • 5.5.2. Configuring VPP IPsec route mode or policy mode
    • 5.5.3. VPP startup.conf configuration and CLI commands
    • 5.5.4. Strongswan configuration on DPU
    • 5.5.5. Strongswan configuration on remote DPU/Host:
    • 5.5.6. Ipsec Linux commands
  • 5.6. Host Offload to OCTEON DPU Via Virtio Interface over PCIe
    • 5.6.1. Configuring OCTEON DPU
  • 5.7. Host offload to OCTEON DPU via SDP interface over PCIe
    • 5.7.1. Configuring OCTEON DPU
    • 5.7.2. Configuring Host
• 6. TLS Proxy with NGINX
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. NGINX Brief
  • 6.3. NGINX as TLS termination proxy
    • 6.3.1. Usage/deployment Model
    • 6.3.2. NGINX Architecture Diagram
    • 6.3.3. NGINX acceleration on OCTEON
  • 6.4. Steps to Build
    • 6.4.1. Getting Sources
  • 6.5. Environment Setup
    • 6.5.1. Enabling CPT device
    • 6.5.2. NGINX configuration
    • 6.5.3. OpenSSL configuration
  • 6.6. Launching the application
    • 6.6.1. Running the Proxy Application
    • 6.6.2. Functional Testing of the Proxy
    • 6.6.3. Performance Testing of the Proxy
• 7. Machine Learning
  • 7.1. Resnet50
    • 7.1.1. Introduction
    • 7.1.2. Preprocessing of Input
    • 7.1.3. Model Execution
    • 7.1.4. Postprocessing of Output
  • 7.2. LUCID
    • 7.2.1. Introduction
    • 7.2.2. Training Model
    • 7.2.3. Run Script
    • 7.2.4. References
• 8. Snort with VectorScan
  • 8.1. What is Snort?
  • 8.2. What is VectorScan?
  • 8.3. Accelerations
  • 8.4. Installing Snort
    • 8.4.1. Ubuntu Debian package
    • 8.4.2. Install the Snort package and verify
  • 8.5. VectorScan Benchmarking
    • 8.5.1. Pattern Sets
    • 8.5.2. Performance measurements
  • 8.6. Snort Benchmarking