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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 Planned Release 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
SNAT: Delete and dump addresses Matus 0 Committed VPP-453
Multiple inside interface - Multiple subnets Matus 0 DONE VPP-447 Multiple inside interfaces for the same "tenant" with non-overlapping address space.
Inside overlapping interfaces Matus 0 Committed VPP-446 Tenants on separate interfaces, separate VRFs with overlapping address space.
Thread safe Matus 0 Committed VPP-443 All traffic corresponding to a specific session to be handled by a CPU core.
SNAT: Dump API for in and out interfaces Matus 0 Committed VPP-459
SNAT: Address range overlapping Matus 0 Committed VPP-478
API (Java and Python) 0 Done HONEYCOMB-135 SNAT - Honeycomb
SNAT: make test Matus DONE
Hairpinning Matus 1 DONE VPP-444 Hosts communicating behind the same NAT using the external representation of their address. hairpinning
Logging Matus 17.04 DONE VPP-445 Netflow - IPFix
Configurable Port Allocation Algorithms Matus 17.04 WIP CGN. High efficiency port utilisation. Dynamic endpoint-independent filtering versus address-dependent filtering. VPP-623
Configurable IP address pooling behaviour 17.04 CGN.
Port allocation per protocol Matus 17.04 DONE CGN VPP-622
SNAT: static mappings for dhcp addressed interfaces Matus 17.04 DONE home gateway VPP-590
SNAT: Add outside addresses to FIB Matus 17.04 DONE FDS VPP-613
Performance 10Mpps/core. Linear scaling with number of cores.
Scale 10 million sessions.
Input ACL support before NAT
Multiple outside interfaces
ICMP error packet translation Juraj 17.04 DONE VPP-629
MAP-E CE 1
DS-lite
NAT64
IP fragmentation
PCP No plan.

API

add S-NAT plugin external address range:

define snat_add_address_range {
 u32 client_index;
 u32 context;
 u8 is_ip4;
 u8 first_ip_address[16];
 u8 last_ip_address[16];
 u8 is_add;
};

dump S-NAT plugin external addresses:

define snat_address_dump {
 u32 client_index;
 u32 context;
};
define snat_address_details {
 u32 context;
 u8 is_ip4;
 u8 ip_address[16];
};

enable/disable S-NAT feature on the interface:

define snat_interface_add_del_feature {
 u32 client_index;
 u32 context;
 u8 is_add;
 u8 is_inside;
 u32 sw_if_index;
};

dump interfaces with S-NAT feature:

define snat_interface_dump {
 u32 client_index;
 u32 context;
};
define snat_interface_details {
 u32 context;
 u8 is_inside;
 u32 sw_if_index;
};

add/del 1:1 NAT:

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];
 u8 protocol;
 u16 local_port;
 u16 external_port;
 u32 external_sw_if_index;
 u32 vrf_id;
};

dump 1:1 NAT:

define snat_static_mapping_dump {
 u32 client_index;
 u32 context;
};
define snat_static_mapping_details {
 u32 context;
 u8 is_ip4;
 u8 addr_only;
 u8 local_ip_address[16];
 u8 external_ip_address[16];
 u8 protocol;
 u16 local_port;
 u16 external_port;
 u32 vrf_id;
};

show S-NAT plugin config:

define snat_show_config {
 u32 client_index;
 u32 context;
};
define snat_show_config_reply {
 u32 context;
 i32 retval;
 u8 static_mapping_only;
 u8 static_mapping_connection_tracking;
 u32 translation_buckets;
 u32 translation_memory_size;
 u32 user_buckets;
 u32 user_memory_size;
 u32 max_translations_per_user;
 u32 outside_vrf_id;
 u32 inside_vrf_id;
};

set S-NAT plugin workers:

define snat_set_workers {
 u32 client_index;
 u32 context;
 u64 worker_mask;
};

dump S-NAT plugin workers:

define snat_worker_dump {
 u32 client_index;
 u32 context;
};
define snat_worker_details {
 u32 context;
 u32 worker_index;
 u32 lcore_id;
 u8 name[64];
};

add/del S-NAT pool address from specific interfce:

define snat_add_del_interface_addr {
 u32 client_index;
 u32 context;
 u8 is_add;
 u8 is_inside;
 u32 sw_if_index;
};

dump S-NAT pool addresses interfaces:

define snat_interface_addr_dump {
 u32 client_index;
 u32 context;
};
define snat_interface_addr_details {
 u32 context;
 u32 sw_if_index;
};

enable/disable S-NAT IPFIX logging:

define snat_ipfix_enable_disable {
 u32 client_index;
 u32 context;
 u32 domain_id;
 u16 src_port;
 u8 enable;
};

CLI

set interface snat in <intfc> out <intfc> [del]
snat add addresses <ip4-range-start> [- <ip4-range-end>]
snat add static mapping tcp|udp|icmp local <ip4-addr> [<port>] external (<ip4-addr>|<intfc>) [<port>] [vrf <table-id>] [del]
set snat workers <workers-list>
snat ipfix logging [domain <domain-id>] [src-port <port>] [disable]
snat add interface address <interface> [del]
show snat [detail|verbose]

Enable S-NAT feature example

To enable NAT feature with local network interface GigabitEthernet0/8/0 and external network interface GigabitEthernet0/a/0 use:

vpp# set interface snat in GigabitEthernet0/8/0 out GigabitEthernet0/a/0

NAPT - add pool address example

To add NAT pool address use:

vpp# snat add address 172.16.1.3
vpp# snat add address 172.16.2.2 - 172.16.2.24

1:1 NAT example

To create static mapping between local address 10.0.0.3 and external address 4.4.4.4 use:

vpp# snat add static mapping local 10.0.0.3 external 4.4.4.4

1:1 NAT with ports example

If not runnig "static mapping only" S-NAT plugin mode first use:

vpp# snat add address 4.4.4.4

To create static mapping between local host address 10.0.0.3 port 6303 and external address 4.4.4.4 port 3606 for TCP protocol use:

vpp# snat add static mapping tcp local 10.0.0.3 6303 external 4.4.4.4 3606

Set S-NAT workers example

To set S-NAT workers (2 or more workers available, by default S-NAT use all available worker threads) use:

vpp# set snat workers 0-1

Enable S-NAT IPFIX logging example

To set IPFIX exporter use:

vpp# set ipfix exporter collector 10.10.10.3 src 10.10.10.1

To enable SNAT IPFIX logging use:

vpp# snat ipfix logging

Add S-NAT pool address from specific (DHCP addressed) interfce example

To add S-NAT pool address from specific interfce use:

vpp# snat add interface address GigabitEthernet0/8/0

1:1 NAT for DHCP addressed interface example

To add static mapping for DHCP addressed interface use:

vpp# snat add static mapping tcp local 10.0.0.3 6303 external GigabitEthernet0/a/0 3606

Startup config

translation hash buckets <n> - default 1024
translation hash memory <n> - default 128<<20
user hash buckets <n> - default 128
user hash memory <n> - default 64<<20
max translations per user <n> - default 100
outside VRF id <table-id> - default 0
inside VRF id <table-id> - default 0
static mapping only [connection tracking] - default dynamic traslations enabled

NAT IPFIX logging

Supported NAT events:

Event Name Value
NAT Addresses exhausted 3
NAT44 Session create 4
NAT44 Session delete 5

Address Exhausted event template:

Field Name Size (bits)
observationTimeMilliseconds 64
natEvent 8
natPoolId 32

NAT44 Session delete/create template:

Field Name Size (bits)
observationTimeMilliseconds 64
natEvent 8
sourceIPv4Address 32
postNATSourceIPv4Address 32
protocolIdentifier 8
sourceTransportPort 16
postNAPTSourceTransportPort 16
ingressVRFID 32

YANG model

References