Evaluación de rendimiento e interoperabilidad de una plataforma hw/sw de routing opensource.

Abstract

This work aimed at analyzing the performance and interoperability of Hardware/Software (HW/SW) open source platform. An operating system called FRRouting (FRR) free software was installed in a Jetway mainboard and several performance and interoperability tests with other network devices were done. The scientific method was used to develop the software. The HW/SW platform has the Linux-Ubuntu 16.04 operating system, in which FRR – a set of routing protocols IP including daemons for dynamic routing protocols that is a current version of Quagga – was configured. Several interoperability tests were carried out using an internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) and internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) in different scenarios with several current existing dynamic routing protocols and with redistribution. For the scenario, testing equipment from different developers, such as Mikrotik, Cisco were used. The terminal performance was verified studying two important cases: receiving injected traffic from the Ostinato testing tools and determining the behavior during the test with Wireshark; the transmission speed and the quantity of packet loss, and so on were obtained. A virtual route injector (vRIN) – a generator system that permitted to send created route requests and to know the device transmission speed – was used. These tests were compared to Cisco testing scenario including similar features. The device is 100% interoperable and has a high performance in different posed scenarios. This equipment is less expensive and more profitable for enterprises that do not require specific areas of advanced networks. It is recommended to verify the compatibility of the open source systems with hardware mainboard when installing them.