VPP/NAT

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VPP NAT implementation

Introduction

The VPP SNAT is an implementation of NAT44. It is a plugin and is meant to replace the VCGN component. The target use case is a general IPv4 CPE NAT, a CGN and to act as a NAT44 in a Openstack deployment.

It is intended to be pluggable, in the sense that it should be possible to plug the NAT44 function together with the MAP-E IPv4 to IPv6 translator to create a MAP-E CE, likewise one can plug the NAT44 together with MAP-T to create a MAP-T CE or 464XLAT.

Features are tracked as they are developed in the following VPP-441.

Until code is upstreamed it is developed on gitub.

Requirements

  • Scale to millions of bindings
  • Performance goal of 10Mpps/core.
  • Configurable address and port selection algorithm.
  • User quotas for sessions.
  • Thread safe
  • Efficient port utilisation. Endpoint independent for applications requiring it, address and port filtering otherwise
  • No ALGs
  • Configurable IP address pooling behavour
  • Plugable with MAP-E/T to create MAP-E/T CE, 464XLAT
  • Stateful NAT64
  • Support for NAT on a stick (single inside / outside interface)

Work list

Task Owner Priority Status Description
1:1 NAT Matus 0 Committed VPP-339
1:1 NAT with ports Matus 0 Committed VPP-339
1:1 NAT with disabled dynamic translation Matus 0 Committed VPP-339 add "static mapping only [connection tracking]" to snat startup config.
VRF awareness Matus 0 Committed VPP-339 One tenant == One VRF. One VRF == multiple interfaces / multiple subnets, add vrf to static mapping API/CLI.
1:1 NAT delete and dump API Matus 0 Committed VPP-339
Multiple inside interface - Multiple subnets 0 VPP-447 Multiple inside interfaces for the same "tenant" with non-overlapping address space.
Inside overlapping interfaces 0 VPP-446 Tenants on separate interfaces, separate VRFs with overlapping address space.
Thread safe 0 VPP-443
Hairpinning 1 VPP-444 Hosts communicating behind the same NAT using the external representation of their address.
Logging 1 VPP-445 Netflow - IPFix
API (Java and Python)
Input ACL support before NAT
Multiple outside interfaces
ICMP error packet translation
DS-lite
NAT64

API

define snat_add_static_mapping {
 u32 client_index;
 u32 context;
 u8 is_add;
 u8 is_ip4;
 u8 addr_only;
 u8 local_ip_address[16];
 u8 external_ip_address[16];
 u16 local_port;
 u16 external_port;
};

CLI

snat add static mapping local <ip4-addr> [<port>] external <ip4-addr> [<port>]

YANG model

References

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