OSPF Emulation Software - Ixia

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DATASpecificationsOSPFv2 LSAs SupportedOSPFv3 LSAs SupportedRouter Types SupportedAdjacency TimersArea IDNetwork Types SupportedMessages SupportedAuthenticationProtocol State StatisticsLearned LSA Functionality(OSPFv2 only)Learned LSA Statistics(OSPFv2 only)Graceful RestartDR/BDRProtocol MessageStatisticsRouter, Network, Summary, Summary type 4, AS-External, Traffic EngineeringOpaque LSAs, NSSARouter, Network, Inter-Area-Prefix, Inter-Area-Router, AS-External, Link, Intra-Area-PrefixIntra-Area Routers, Area Border Routers, and Autonomous System, BoundaryRoutersHello and Dead intervals configurableConfigurable in decimal or IP notation formatPoint-to-Point and BroadcastHello, Database Description, Link State Request, Link State Update, Link StateAcknowledgementMD5, PasswordNumeric or Pie chart display of the following protocol states:OSPF Sessions Configured, OSPF Neighbors in full state, Down State Count,Attempt State Count, Init State Count, Two Way State Count, ExStart State Count,Exchange State Count, Loading State Count, Full State CountSummarized list of LSA headers learned per interface. This includes Link State ID,Advertising Router, Link Type, Sequence Number, and LSA age. The list can befiltered based on Link State ID, Advertising Router, and LSA typesTotal count of LSAs learned as well as counts per LSA typeEnable or disable emulated OSPF routers to act as Helper during graceful restartprocessEnable or disable DR/BDR election processHellos TX/RX, DBD TX/RX, LS Request TX/RX, LS Update TX/RX, LS Ack TX/RX,LinkState Advertisement TX/RX, LSA Acknowledge TX/RX, Router LSA TX/RX,Network LSA TX/RX, Summary IP LSA TX/RX, Summary AS LSA TX/RX, ExternalLSA TX/RX, NSSA LSA TX/RX, Opaque Local LSA TX/RX, Opaque Area LSATX/RX, Opaque Domain LSA TX/RX, GraceLSA Rx, HelperMode Attempted,HelperMode FailedPage 2
DATAScalabilityThousands of OSPF sessions and millions of routes can besupported on a single Ixia chassis with CPU per port LoadModules. Each Ixia test interface can emulate a router gridas large as 200 x 200. In addition, links and routes can beflapped to dynamically assess how the router will behaveunder adverse network conditions.Multi-Protocol SupportIxia’s family of emulation software can be run simultaneouslyon one or many ports in conjunction with line-rate traffic tosimulate realistic network scenarios. For MPLS/RSVP-TEtesting, OSPF Traffic Engineering LSAs can be injected intoa System Under Test (SUT) to create realistic MPLSconfigurations (OSPFv2 only). In addition, custom TLVencoding can be used to create various scenarios.Integrated TestingIxia’s OSPF Emulation Software is installed as an add-on toIxNetwork, Ixia’s Graphical User Interface (GUI) applicationfor data and control plane testing. The IxNetwork software exposes many of the packet parameters so thatcomplex IP packets can be created. Traffic streams to advertised routes can be automatically created with anautomated stream generation tool. Traffic statistics can be logged and graphed. In addition, OSPF encodes areavailable to facilitate negative state and session testing.Easy-to-Use InterfaceThe IxNetwork GUI facilitates the quick and easy configuration of routing protocol emulations. Configurationwizards provide a simple, graphical-based step-by-step process for initial setup of small to large scale testtopologies across multiple Ixia test ports. Wizards are available for OSPF specific emulation as well as morecomplex Layer 2 and Layer 3 MPLS VPNs which may use OSPF. In addition, IxNetwork’s spreadsheet GUIparadigm provides for the entry, editing, and viewing of large configurations across multiple test ports.Spreadsheet-like commands are available to quickly scalea configuration or apply operations across multiple values.Once a network topology is created, it can be copied easilyacross any supported Ixia test port.Tcl AutomationAutomated scripts can be quickly created using the Ixia TclAutomation Environment. Alternatively, the IxNetwork GUIcan be used to set up a test configuration, then Ixia’sScriptGen utility used to translate the GUI settings to Tclcode with minimal commands. Tcl support is available onWindows, Linux and UNIX platforms.Page 3
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