Ixia Software Release Notes
IxNetwork 9.20 Update 2
Build Number: 9.20.2206.49 (July, 2022)
IxNetwork 9.20 Update 2 is an update release on top of IxNetwork 9.20.
For a complete list of all the new features included in this release, please refer to the 'What's New' section below.
Application Compatibility
As an update release, IxNetwork 9.20 Update 2 has the same compatibility as that of IxNetwork 9.20 release.
For IxNetwork 9.20 Update 2, use 3.2.6.201 version of Wireshark.
For Protocol Wizards, we need Windows 10 or higher as the client operating system.
Installation procedure for Classic Protocols
Note: The following installers are only relevant if you want to use classic protocols.
The installers are available in the "IxNetwork Classic Protocol Installers" section of the support page at https://support.ixiacom.com
1. For Windows client, use "Client Installer (Windows)".
2. For Windows chassis, use "Chassis Installer (Windows)".
3. For Native IxOS chassis, use "Chassis Installer (Native IxOS) Offline Update Package".
4. No additional installer is needed for IxNetwork VE.
Starting with version 8.10 EA, you must provide your credentials while starting the IxNetwork User Interfaces.
The credentials are validated using an e-mail based authentication mechanism. For details see Start IxNetwork section in the IxNetwork Getting Started Guide.
You must create an account before you start using IxNetwork. Select the Create new account option on the login page available at: login.ixiacom.com and enter your details.
You will receive an email. You can use the new account only after you verify the email address by opening the link in the verification e-mail received from "Ixia Identity".
If the client machine running IxNetwork is offline, a token is required to sign in. The token is a binary file, that can be obtained by signing in to login.ixiacom.com from a computer with Internet access and downloading the Offline Authentication Token.
Note: When signing in, or managing the account in a web browser, always confirm that you are doing so over a secure connection. Ixia does not ask for user name, password or other personal information via email.
Privacy Matters:
To improve the experience for customers and the quality of Ixia's products, data may be collected and stored by Ixia.
This typically includes data about the product usage and environment (such as operating system, browser, language), and personal data such as user name, email and IP addresses.
Only Ixia's IT, project managers and marketing worldwide will have access to this data.
When you first sign in to either application, you will be asked to consent to such data collection and use, and to the data transfer to Ixia in the United States.
You may withdraw your consent at any time and for any reason. Please refer to our privacy policy for more information and opt-out possibility (available at https://www.ixiacom.com/privacy-policy)
IxNetwork requires that a license for its use be installed for each chassis used by IxNetwork. That license may be installed on each chassis or on a server on your network, referred to as the central license server.
For more information about the new IxLicensing system, please refer to the "Ixia Licensing Management User Guide" provided with the Ixia software, or downloadable from the Ixia web site: http://www.ixiacom.com/support-services/product-support/user-guides
You will be required to provide a login and password to enter this section of the web site. If you do not have the username and password, please forward your request to support.ix@keysight.com.
To install this update, you must have the IxNetwork 9.20 'client' component installed on the user workstation where the IxNetwork GUI will be run.
Download IxNetwork Update software from the Ixia website and Double-click on the file from within Windows Explorer.
Installed updates are visible under control panel -> installed updates for IxNetwork 9.20
Please contact Ixia customer support for upgrades if needed.
IxNetwork Web Edition
1. IxNetwork Web Edition supports IxNetwork web based user interface, QuickTest, and API Browser.
2. IxNetwork Web Edition can be installed on VM (ESXi and KVM), Native IxOS chassis.
3. IxNetwork Web Edition software (OVA, QCOW2, Docker, and HSL package) are available as downloads from the Ixia website.
| IxNetwork Web Edition |
OS |
Network |
Storage |
| ESXi OVA |
ESXi 6.0 Update 2 or ESXi 6.5 (64 bit only) |
VMXNET3 |
128 GB |
| KVM QCOW2 |
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or CentOS 7.6.1810 (64 bit only) |
virtio |
128 GB |
| Docker |
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or CentOS 7.6.1810 (64 bit only) |
Promiscuous mode enabled |
128 GB |
| Application |
IxNetwork Web Edition |
| Google Chrome |
75 or newer |
| Mozilla Firefox |
70 or newer |
| Microsoft Edge |
44.17763.1.0 or newer |
| Apple Safari |
12.1.1 or newer |
IxNetwork Web Edition can be installed on VMWARE ESXI6.0, or ESXI6.5 via the provided OVA
1. Deploy IxNetwork Web Edition OVA directly on VMWARE ESXI server.
2. Start the deployed VM.
3. Get connected to the link displayed on the console screen (from the browser).
4. Log in with credentials username: admin and password: admin
5. To start the QuickTest session manually, click "New Test".
6. To start the IxNetwork API Server session manually, click "New API Server".
7. To start scripting, click "Download a client".
8. Make sure that all dependencies are installed before starting scripting.
9. Click on package downloads for the corresponding language.
10. Sample codes are given for each language and follow the steps.
IxNetwork Web Edition can be installed on KVM via the provided QCOW2 image
Note: IxNetwork Web Edition is supported on KVM with CentOS and Ubuntu Distributions.
1. Deploy QuickTest Web Edition QCOW2 in KVM/Virtual Machine Manager
2. Start the deployed VM.
3. Get connected to the link displayed in the console screen (from the browser).
4. Log in with credentials username: admin and password: admin
5. To start QuickTest session manually, click "New Test".
6. To start IxNetwork API Server session manually, click "New API Server".
7. To start scripting, click "Download a client".
8. Make sure that all dependencies are installed before starting scripting.
9. Click on package downloads for the corresponding language.
10. Sample codes are given for each language and follow the steps.
IxNetwork Web Edition can be deployed as a Docker container via the provided image
Note: IxNetwork Web Edition is supported as Docker container with CentOS and Ubuntu Distributions.
1. Copy the .tar file on the host
2. Make sure the interface has promiscous mode enabled
3. Decompress the .tar file: tar xjf <file.tar.bz2>
4. Load the image to docker: docker load -i </path/to/tar/file>
5. Create the macvlan bridge to be used by IxNetwork Web Edition: docker network create -d macvlan -o parent=<interface> --subnet <subnet> --gateway=<gateway> <bridge_name>
6. Deploy the IxNetwork Web Edition container using the following command:
a. When using MAC VLAN BRIDGE:
docker run --net <BRIDGE NAME> \
--ip <CONTAINER IP> \
--hostname <HOSTNAME> \
--name <CONTAINER NAME> \
--cap-add=SYS_ADMIN \
--cap-add=NET_ADMIN \
-i -d \
-v /sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup \
<IMAGE NAME>
b. When using HTTPS on a specific external port and host IP:
docker run \
- p <EXTERNAL PORT>:443 \
--cap-add=SYS_ADMIN \
--cap-add=NET_ADMIN \
-i -d \
-v /sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup \
<IMAGE NAME>
7. Open up a browser and connect to the configured IP.
8. Log in with credentials username: admin and password: admin
9. To start QuickTest session manually, click "New Test".
10. To start IxNetwork API Server session manually, click "New API Server".
11. To start scripting, click "Download a client".
12. Make sure that all dependencies are installed before starting scripting.
13. Click on package downloads for corresponding language.
14. Sample codes are given for each language and follow the steps.
15. Optional mapping of configuration files, results and settings to external folders on host add the following parameters to the command:
-v <HOST CONFIGS LOCATION>:/root/.local/share/Ixia/sdmStreamManager/common \
-v <HOST RESULTSLOCATION>:/root/.local/share/Ixia/IxNetwork/data/result \
-v <HOST SETTINGS LOCATION>:/root/.local/share/IXIA/IxNetwork.Globals \
* The ip parameter assigns a specific IP to the container
** Name and Hostname are optional parameters
*** Docker containers need sufficient space on the host, if not the sessions will not start
**** If the container needs to be launched with the full list of capabilities, launch the container in --privileged mode
IxNetwork Web Edition can be installed on HSL/SDL/AresONE/Novus ONE chassis
1. Connect to XGS12-HSL/XGS2-HSL/XGS12-SDL/XGS2-SDL/AresONE/Novus ONE chassis.
2. Log in with credentials username: admin and password: admin
3. Go to Administration - IxNetwork Web Edition screen.
4. Click on "Manual Updates" and point to IxNetwork Web Edition HSL package file.
5. Follow the on-screen instructions provided by the installer.
IxNetwork Web Edition can be installed on VE Chassis
1. Connect to VE chassis.
2. Log in with credentials username: admin and password: admin
3. Click on the Install New Application button.
4. Click on "Browse" and point to the IxNetwork Web Edition package file.
5. Follow the on-screen instructions provided by the installer.
Notes:
- The first time IxNetwork Web Edition is installed on the VE Chassis the installation will take longer due to the installation of dependencies
- The VE Chassis virtual machine must be provisioned with at least 4 vCPUs / 8 GB RAM for the install to be complete, IxNetwork Web Edition will use half of the provisioned resources
- The vdisk size will have to be increased to at least 40GB to make room for the test results
- The disk drive performance can influence the application performance, having a faster drive will provide the best results
Display Requirements
Recommended screen resolution: 1920 x 1080
If a display device with high resolution is used, it is recommended to change the text size to 100% from the display settings of the operating system for best usability experience.
For Microsoft Windows 10 operating system: It is recommended to update at least to Windows 10 April 2018 Update release for best usability experience.
Please refer to the IxNetwork documentation for guidance on its usage.
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9.20 Update 2 Features
| 5G |
| IxNetwork now supports ORAN Fronthaul traffic emulation using simulated O-DU and O-RU for validating Fronthaul transport network. This is of beta quality. |
| Access |
| NGPF PPPoE emulation now supports fields to configure IPCP compression protocol options. It supports Van Jacobson's TCP/IP header compression, IP header compression, and Robust header Compression. |
| NGPF PPPoE emulation now supports fields to configure additional LCP options. It supports Protocol Field compression, Address and Control Field Compression, and FCS alternatives. |
| Automation |
| EVPN VxLAN wizard now supports configuration through High Level API. This is of beta quality. |
| Infrastructure |
| Flow Statistics information is available in IxNetwork Test Report generated using Traffic-Detailed template. |
| Windows UI now has a Global search option to search for any Scenario items, Traffic items etc. |
| Windows UI NGPF protocol grid now supports sharing Pattern from object in one topology to similar objects in other topologies, thus helping in bulk configuration with minimum number of clicks. |
| Simulated network topology now supports external link configuration between one-to-many or many-to-one topologies automatically. |
| NGPF Device Configuration Wizard is enhanced to generate unique MAC and Custom pattern for VLAN and IP. |
| L2 Security |
| In case of Static MACsec, UDP checksum calculation is now supported for MACsec encrypted UDP data frames. |
| Routing/Switching/MPLS |
| NGPF BGP emulation now supports extended messages as per RFC 8654. |
| SDN |
| NGPF IPv6 SR Ext stack now supports SRv6 traffic with inner IPv4 encapsulation. |
| SRv6 emulation now supports Global IPv4 and IPv6 services over SRv6 core. |
| Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) is introduced for SRv6/G-SRv6 OAM. This is of beta quality. |
| BGP Flowspec emulation is upgraded to support RFC 8955 (IPv4) and RFC 8956 (IPv6). Support for draft-jiang-idr-ts-flowspec-srv6-policy is added to steer traffic to SRv6 policy. |
| BGP-LS emulation now supports receipt and display of BGP Segment Routing Traffic Engineering policies as per draft-ietf-idr-te-lsp-distribution-17. |
| TSN |
| Avnu Silicon Qbv test specification phase 2 is now supported as part of IxNetwork Avnu Conformance Test Library. Support for 26 test cases of bridged and end point scenario are present. |
| Avnu Silicon AS-2020 test specification phase 2 is now supported as part of IxNetwork Avnu Conformance Test Library. Support for 140 test cases are present. All the test cases are fully backward compatible with AS-2011 specification. |
| TSN wizard now supports configuration of complex Frame Preemption and MACsec validation scenarios along with automatic MACsec encrypted fragment generation. |
L2 Security
| Bug Number |
Notes |
| 22523 |
In case of Static MACsec, UDP checksum calculation is not supported if 'Payload (Random after Decrypt)' is added in a MACsec encrypted UDP data frame. Payload should be added as 'Custom_v2' or 'Custom' payload. |
Access
| Bug Number |
Notes |
| 22361 |
On IxVM , Dot1x with VLAN tagging is not responding to messages. |
Infrastructure
| Bug Number |
Notes |
| 21313 |
IPv6 Layer is not doing neighbor discovery from the first RA. |
| 21293 |
"Allow Packet Change" field values for IPv6 Hop-by-Hop Options header in Traffic Item encapsulation are incorrect. |
IxNetwork Web Edition
| Bug Number |
Notes |
| 21450 |
WebUI Deployment: IPv6 Settings are not saved from deployment ssh prompt. And Session closes after changing Admin password. |
| 21451 |
WebUI Deployment: Test configuration changes not saved and session is closed upon Commit. |
| 21497 |
WebUI Deployment Issues: Password is asked multiple times on the ssh prompt;
Backspace is not taken into consideration;
Prompt texts are not consistent. |
Routing/Switching/MPLS
| Bug Number |
Notes |
| 21732 |
ISIS is not refreshing the LSPs after refresh interval if the MT ID 0 is not configured. |
| 21120 |
BGP Link State Learned info wrongly shows MSD values in "ISIS Area ID" field. |
| 21465 |
Application specific data can have length 0, but IxNetwork always expects minimum 1 byte of length. |
SDN
| Bug Number |
Notes |
| 21506 |
ICMP packets for SRv6 OAM Traceroute responses do not reflect correct details for destinations within simulated topology. |
| 21051 |
BGP-LS learned info is not displaying IPv4/IPv6 Router ID of Local/Remote Nodes. |
| 21482 |
SRv6 OAM pings to loopback addresses are not responded when SRH header is present. |
| 21505 |
SRv6 OAM traceroute responses are sent for only the configured UDP port. |
| 22598 |
Port becomes unresponsive when DUT main card is switched with BGP-LS running. |
Time Synchronization
| Bug Number |
Notes |
| 22265 |
Error is observed while PTP gets configured on top of Ethernet stack using HLAPI. |