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This draft is a work item of the Benchmarking Methodology Working Group of the IETF.
Title : Benchmarking Methodology for IGP Data Plane Route
Convergence
Author(s) : S. Poretsky, B. Imhoff
Filename : draft-ietf-bmwg-igp-dataplane-conv-meth-01.txt
Pages : 14
Date : 2003-10-14
This draft describes the methodology for benchmarking IGP Route
Convergence. The applicability of this testing is described in
[1] and the new terminology that it introduces is defined in [2].
Service Providers use IGP Convergence time as a key metric of
router design and architecture. Customers of Service Providers
observe convergence time by packet loss. IGP Route Convergence
is a Direct Measure of Quality (DMOQ) when benchmarking the data
plane and not the control plane. The test cases in this document
are black-box tests that emulate the network events that cause
route convergence, as described in [1]. Black-box test design
accounts for all of the factors for route convergence time, as
provided in [1]. The methodology and terminology is to be used
for benchmarking route convergence and can be applied to any
link-state IGP such as ISIS [3] and OSPF [4].
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