Test software design and implemetation for benchmarking of stateless IPv4/IPv6 translation implementations

Abstract

There are many available NAT64 implementations, but we can not measure their performance per the standards, due to the lack of complaint testers. The aim of our effort is to design and write the first implementation of a test program that could provide the first answer to these needs. For benchmarking Network Interconnect Devices we could use the recommendation of the 2544 (IP version independent) and the 5180 (IPv6 related) RFCs. But these do not cover the benchmarking of IPv6 translation technologies. There is an IETF draft which covers this topic, the “Benchmarking Methodology for IPv6 Transition Technologies”. This draft covers the transition technologies which contain the translation too. We will use this draft as bases of our design.