Design of a Software Tester for Benchmarking Lightweight 4over6 Devices

Abstract

Several IPv6 transition technologies have been developed to overcome the problem of IPv4 depletion and to accelerate the full deployment of IPv6. The Benchmarking Working Group of IETF has standardized a benchmarking methodology for these technologies in the RFC 8219. One of the most important ones of these technologies is lightweight 4over6 (lw4o6), which is classified as an encapsulation technology in the RFC 8219. This paper aims at designing an RFC 8219 compliant test program for the lw4o6 devices, more specifically, the lightweight Basic Bridging BroadBand (lwB4) and the lightweight Address Family Transition Router (lwAFTR). For this purpose, we overviewed the operational requirements, specified the scope of measurements, and disclosed the design considerations for this tester.