BENCHMARKING NETWORK DEVICES

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• BENCHMARKING NETWORK DEVICES
• UNDER ACCLERATED STRESS
• draft-ietf-bmwg-acc-bench-term-09.txt
• draft-ietf-bmwg-acc-bench-meth-05.txt
• Co-authors are
• Scott Poretsky of Reef Point and
• Shankar Rao of Qwest

66th IETF Meeting Montreal
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Current Status

• draft-ietf-bmwg-acc-bench-term-09.txt,
  Terminology for Accelerated Stress Benchmarking
• Incorporates action items from mailing list and
  IETFs 64/65
• draft-ietf-bmwg-acc-bench-meth-05.txt,
  Methodology Guidelines for Accelerated Stress
  Benchmarking
• Incorporates action items from mailing list and
  IETFs 64/65
• Passed recent litmus test on mailing list
• Reviewer complained documents
• do not have a P/F criteria
• do not provide for qualitative analysis
• do not measure MTBF, MTBCF, MTTF, etc.

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Rev Changes

• -08 Terminology
• Specified the benchmark Recovery Time in
  micro-second resolution
• Added discussion that benchmarks span multiple
  dimensions and each can be compared as the
  methodology user requires for the DUT
  application.
• Renamed "degraded forwarding rate to "forwarding
  rate degradation"
• -05 General Methodology
• Consistent Use of "Accelerated Stress Benchmark
• More detailed test case description
• No NITs

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Next Steps

• Are Methodology and Terminology ready for WGLC?