Link-Security™ Software Demo 3

This demonstrates TLS/TCP offloading onto the IPU.

Before you begin

Make sure that you have:

Installed a Napatech IPU in a server. See Installing a Napatech IPU.
Programmed the IPU with an appropriate FPGA image. See Napatech Link-Security™ Software FPGA Images.
Compiled and installed Link-Security™ Software on the IPU. See Installing Napatech Link-Security™ Software on the IPU.
Configured the IPU. See Configuring the IPU.
Configured the test server. See Configuring the Test Server.

About this task

Demo setup showing that traffic is encrypted, and encryption/decryption and reverse-proxying are performed on the IPU.

In this demo, traffic is encrypted, and encryption/decryption and reverse-proxying are performed on the IPU.

Note: The following prompt is used to indicate which part of the system to run the provided commands on.

test#: The server where the test script is executed.

Procedure

Run the test script.

For example:

cd /opt/ipu_workload_tls/src
python3 -m standalone.main --proxy soc –-tls --deploy-run -c 2000

where:

--proxy soc: Run reverse-proxying on the IPU.
–-tls: TLS is enabled.
--deploy-run: Deploy network/services and run workload.
-c 2000: 2000 connections that the wrk tool uses.

An output example:

…
…
== Cache warm up ==
Workload
├── duration:     600s
├── connections:  500
└── threads:      104
== Performance measure ==
Workload
├── duration:     120s
├── connections: 2000
└── threads:        4
Throughput 13.280.000.000 bps
           1.66 GBs
======= Host Summary Report =======
CPU:
    all load avg:  0.02 %
    all load std:  0.03 %
Network interfaces:
    enp15s0 RX
        throughput rx avg:                0 bps
        throughput rx std:                0 bps
    enp15s0 TX
        throughput tx avg:                0 bps
        throughput tx std:                0 bps
======= SoC Summary Report =======
CPU:
    all load avg: 78.52 %
    all load std:  0.20 %
Network interfaces:
    ens6f5 RX
        throughput rx avg:       81.099.498 bps
        throughput rx std:          461.405 bps
    ens6f5 TX
        throughput tx avg:   15.107.791.309 bps
        throughput tx std:       41.812.873 bps
--------------------------- Captured stdout teardown ---------------------------
[15:57:01.477] host         | INFO     | Stopping Server on Host
[15:57:01.478] host         | DEBUG    | Thread-145 started
[15:57:02.325] host         | INFO     | Run|➜ pkill nginx || true; rm -rf /tmp/content-cache1 /tmp/error1.log /tmp/access1.log
[15:57:03.268] host         | INFO     | OK |⮠ 
[15:57:03.270] host         | INFO     | Stopping Cache Filler
[15:57:03.271] host         | DEBUG    | Thread-146 started
[15:57:04.100] host         | INFO     | Run|➜ pkill http_obj_gen.py
[15:57:04.171] host         | INFO     | OK |⮠ 
[15:57:04.174] soc          | INFO     | Stopping Proxy on SoC
[15:57:04.174] soc          | DEBUG    | Thread-147 started
[15:57:05.032] soc          | INFO     | Run|➜ pkill nginx || true; rm -rf /tmp/content-cache1 /tmp/error1.log /tmp/access1.log /root/nginx-soc
[15:57:05.853] soc          | INFO     | OK |⮠