MB.Perf.Verification

• Introduction
• Publication
• Requirements
• Installation
• Configuration
• Compiling
• Usage
• Maintainers

INTRODUCTION

To be continued.

PUBLICATION

To be continued.

REQUIREMENTS

Recommended Environment: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with gcc version 4.8.4.

This software requires the following libraries:

• Crypto++
• Click Modular Router

INSTALLATION

• Environment setup:

 * sudo apt-get update
 * sudo apt-get install -y lrzsz gcc g++ libssl-dev libgmp-dev subversion make cmake libboost-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libevent-dev automake libtool flex bison pkg-config ssh openssh-server rsync python-software-properties libglib2.0-dev git libmsgpack-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-date-time-dev libhiredis-dev build-essential libboost-regex-dev gdb

• Crypto++ installation:

You can find the version 5.6.5 on crypto++ website.

wget https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/archive/CRYPTOPP_5_6_5.tar.gz
tar -zxf CRYPTOPP_5_6_5.tar.gz
cd cryptopp-CRYPTOPP_5_6_5
make libcryptopp.a libcryptopp.so 
sudo make install PREFIX=/usr/local

• Click installation:

git clone https://github.com/kohler/click.git
cd click
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
sudo make install

CONFIGURATION

Configure the environment

Add the libraries paths to $LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

```shell
* export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib
```

network configure.
```shell
sudo ethtool -K ens5 gso off gro off
sudo ifconfig ens5 mtu 1500
```

COMPILING

Compile MB.Perf.Verification:

 * git clone https://github.com/CongGroup/MB.Perf.Verification.git
 * cd MB.Perf.Verification
 * sudo make

USAGE

1. Configure ip address open src/element/element_config.h and modify the ip and mac.

2. Configure click configure open VeriNFsMB/click_config/*.click file and modify the network structure.

$PKT_SOURCE is the source packet file path
$BATCH_SIZE is batch size.
$EXP_SIZE is the packets count in the exp.
$VERIFY is the switch of verify function.
$IN_CHAIN if the middlebox is not the head of middlebox chain, this switch need to enable.

3. Start middlebox first, then start gateway

user@middlebox: sudo click box.click

user@gateway1: sudo click gateway1.click

MAINTAINER

• Xiaoli Zhang, City University of Hong Kong, [email protected]
• Mengyu Yao, City University of Hong Kong, [email protected]