AAScratch

Antony's unsorted pages that I want to access quickly. These are mostly related to IPsec/libreswan and when I think I know this page exist but where is it.

• XFRM pCPU
• XFRMi Development Notes 2018-2019
• Namespace Magic, 2019
• IKEv2 State names proposal 2016 - 2019
• Cloud Opportunistic Encryption(OE)
• Linux Kernel Support related to libreswan

• Linux adopting Zinc
• VPN Benchmark
• Wiregaurd BenchMark

KVM/QEMU

virtio-fs is an alternative to 9pfs in KVM/QEMU:

In January 2021, I tried it on Fedora 33. I am happy with the initial results. The performance was great. Building libreswan was quick 44/240 seconds. It might also possible to boot from a host directory. In combination with btrfs could be a good choice. At the moment creating and using virtio-fs is bit hard. It will get better.

• Missing features virt-install do not have necessary support to create VM with right options such as NUMA settings, big memory libvirtd.
• Systemd mount services seems to miss support.
• virtio-fs can also be root fs. Then boot the KVM from kernel(vmlinuz) the host.

Requirement: Fedora 33 - libvirt 6.2, qemu 5.0, kernel 5.4

• libvirt 6.2 Fedora 33. F33
• RH BZ libvirtd merge tracking the request
• QEMU 5.0 added support for virtiofsd. F33??
• virtio-fs Mainline kernel 5.4
• virtiofs RFC patches

KVM/QEMU + vsock NFS to replace 9pfs

KVM/QEMU support for vsock and nfs support over vsock could have a better performance than 9pfs. vsock + nfd started beforevirtio-fs. Currently, as of Janury 2021, virtio-fs is popular. This work could be interesting to libreswan KVM testing. It started in 2015. It is slowly picking up, as of 2018 it used in AWS and AWS firecracker are pushing it. AWS is using without nfsd support. Other distributions may need nfsd support.

• 2015 LWN virtio

Linux Kernel developments

XFRM Offload : starting 4.14

 * NAT support ??? 
 * What if the interface is a member of bridge? can libreswan/strongswan configure SA correctly? bridge
 * what if the packets arrive on different interface would that get decrypted correctly?
 * Bonded NIC card

XFRM and XDP

 * idea presentation Steffen Klassert Linux Netconf, Boston, June, 2019

Linux Per CPU efforts

• Linux Kernel XFRM pCPU and Libreswan Nov 2019
• Snabb @ FOSDEM2020
• Cisco/VPP 40Gbps May 2020

Userspace IPsec Stacks

Over last few years specialized user space IPSec(ESP) stacks and IKE implementations are becoming popular.

VPP + DPDK (Userspace ESP + IKE)

VPP has its own IKEv2 and ESP implimentation.

• https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/IPSec_and_IKEv2
• User-space Network Stacks (DPDK and friends) 2019

Snabb ESP userspace stack

Snabb as of 2020 has ESP. No IKE, it can easily use of the shelf IKE say strongswan for IKE and and few command line calls to install snabb esp Snabb FOSDEM 2020 snabb ipsec podcast Strongswan inegeration

OVS

http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/tutorials/ipsec/

iptable rule to drop IKEv2 message id X

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/321252/drop-a-packet-depending-on-its-options-or-type

# drop ike message ID 6
iptables -A INPUT -m u32 --u32 '0x6 & 0xFF = 0x11 && 0x30 & 0xFFFFFFFF = 0x4' -j DROP

Hardware offload

XFRM offload

• Mellonax Innova or ConnectX 6DX
• Intel

Intel QAT

https://www.servethehome.com/intel-quickassist-at-40gbe-speeds-ipsec-vpn-testing/

Historic OCF

Back in the 90 there was alo

RSS/RPS/RFS

• RPS

Interesting Linux referecncs

Linux packet path

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Netfilter-packet-flow.svg