Meeting Notes, 2021 04 30

DENT Roadmap and Feature Working Group

Date --- 2021 April 30 Zoom meeting --- https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMod-yvrD4rHtNIpPTosVOj571ECS_lrf8j Etherpad (test) --- https://etherpad.anuket.io/p/Dent__Features_April_30th_call

Attendees

• Jon Polom (Department of Defense; research engineer)
• Andrew Dunn (Department of Defense; research engineer)
• Robert Marko (Sartura; kernel devel)
• Luka Perkov (Sartura; principal)
• Jakov Petrina (Sartura; build system)
• Victor Tkachenko (NAG; lead engineer/product manager)
• Kishore Atreya (Marvell PLM)
• Taras Chornyi (PL Vision; switchdev developer)
• Steve Noble (amazon; DENT TSC lead)
• Sandeep Nagaraja (amazon; lead engineer)
• Michael Lane (amazon; principle TPM)
• Trishan de Lanerolle (Linux Foundation;TPM/Community lead for DENT)
• Celement Chang (Delta; BSP developer)
• Mingxi Kao (Alpha Networks)
• Richard Herwig (Whole Foods; bare metal switching)
• Lawrence Liao (Delta)

Agenda

• Market research
  • Linux Foundation
  • Marvell proposed roadmap
    • Sorted through and rearranged lists below
• DENT End User Advisory Group status
• Need to work with upstream projects
  • how to get approval to upstream?
  • how often to rebase on upstream?
  • how to get feedback for works to be upstreamed?
  • impact of platform choice (ONL) on upstreamability of work
• Reviewed proposed roadmap from Marvell and discussed feature timing

"B Release" features (2021)

• Static / Dynamic
• NetConf/OpenConfig – In FRR (removed from release)
• NAT-46,44, and PT
  • NAT on pure Layer-3 port
  • NAT on VLAN tagged port (bridge)
  • NAT support across LAG port
• Configuring 802.1q interface (IpRoute2, Ifupdown2)
  • Configure using IpRoute2
  • Configure using ifupdown2
• configuring IP on 802.1Q interface
  • Configure using IpRoute2
  • Configure using ifupdown2
• Routing on 802.1Q interface
  • Configure static routing using IpRoute2
  • Configure routing using FRR
• PoE controller
  • Support for DNI platforms
  • Support for Accton platforms
  • Support for new ODM platforms
• Telemetry
  • Platform Telemetry
  • Network Telemetry
• Netconf (removed from release)
  • Netconf Edit
  • Netconf Get
  • Netconf replace
  • which implementation of NETCONF?
• gNMI (removed from release)
  • gNMI get
  • gNMI set
  • gNMI subscribe
  • gNMI response
• Configuration schema modelling (removed from release)
  • YANG modelling for platform
  • YANG modelling for Network
  • which YANG models/standards (IETF, IEEE, BBF, ...)?
• Dynamic Routing
  • Support for OSPF via FRR
  • Support for ISIS via FRR
• Scale & Performance Improvements
  • Improve Firewall Scaling numbers
  • Improve Firewall Programming Performance
  • Resource management for ACLs
  • Add Flags to recognize LOCAL Ips
• Dataplane policing
  • BUM traffic Policing
  • Data packet policing
  • Control packet policing
• User application support
• Extend TC persistency tool for policers
• IPv6 parity with IPv4

"C Release" features

• Network Access Control/802.1x
• RADIUS and TACACS+ authentication
• 802.1br
• Port Security
  • Sticky MAC
  • MAC limit
  • MAC Address Bypass
• Port Isolation
• Packet Capture
  • support to temporarily disable offloading so all packets can be captured
• STP/RSTP
  • mstpd hardware offload for RSTP
  • "BPDU guard" : shut off port if BPDU frames received
  • "BPDU root guard" : allow BPDU but only if device not trying to become root
• TCAM or ACL monitoring
  • how many entries used/available
• ZTP

"D Release" features

• Captive Portal
• MCLAG
• RSPAN/ERSPAN, PBR
• QoS (L2/L3) for VoIP, LLDP-MED
• MACsec
• VRF

"E Release" features

• IPFIX/sFlow
• Web UI
• Stacking
• IPSec
• Secure Storage/Encrypted Image

Actions

• Kanban board in LF Jira to discuss features
• Need to define process for feature planning
  • how does community determine if and where feature should land on roadmap?