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HOWTO for the linux packet generator |
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Date: 041221 |
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Enable CONFIG_NET_PKTGEN to compile and build pktgen.o either in kernel |
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or as module. Module is preferred. insmod pktgen if needed. Once running |
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pktgen creates a thread on each CPU where each thread has affinity to its CPU. |
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Monitoring and controlling is done via /proc. Easiest to select a suitable |
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a sample script and configure. |
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On a dual CPU: |
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ps aux | grep pkt |
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root 129 0.3 0.0 0 0 ? SW 2003 523:20 [pktgen/0] |
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root 130 0.3 0.0 0 0 ? SW 2003 509:50 [pktgen/1] |
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For monitoring and control pktgen creates: |
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/proc/net/pktgen/pgctrl |
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/proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_X |
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/proc/net/pktgen/ethX |
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Tuning NIC for max performance |
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The default NIC setting are (likely) not tuned for pktgen's artificial |
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overload type of benchmarking, as this could hurt the normal use-case. |
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Specifically increasing the TX ring buffer in the NIC: |
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# ethtool -G ethX tx 1024 |
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A larger TX ring can improve pktgen's performance, while it can hurt |
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in the general case, 1) because the TX ring buffer might get larger |
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than the CPUs L1/L2 cache, 2) because it allow more queueing in the |
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NIC HW layer (which is bad for bufferbloat). |
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One should be careful to conclude, that packets/descriptors in the HW |
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TX ring cause delay. Drivers usually delay cleaning up the |
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ring-buffers (for various performance reasons), thus packets stalling |
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the TX ring, might just be waiting for cleanup. |
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This cleanup issues is specifically the case, for the driver ixgbe |
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(Intel 82599 chip). This driver (ixgbe) combine TX+RX ring cleanups, |
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and the cleanup interval is affected by the ethtool --coalesce setting |
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of parameter "rx-usecs". |
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For ixgbe use e.g "30" resulting in approx 33K interrupts/sec (1/30*10^6): |
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# ethtool -C ethX rx-usecs 30 |
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Viewing threads |
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=============== |
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/proc/net/pktgen/kpktgend_0 |
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Name: kpktgend_0 max_before_softirq: 10000 |
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Running: |
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Stopped: eth1 |
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Result: OK: max_before_softirq=10000 |
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Most important the devices assigned to thread. Note! A device can only belong |
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to one thread. |
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Viewing devices |
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=============== |
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Parm section holds configured info. Current hold running stats. |
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Result is printed after run or after interruption. Example: |
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/proc/net/pktgen/eth1 |
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Params: count 10000000 min_pkt_size: 60 max_pkt_size: 60 |
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frags: 0 delay: 0 clone_skb: 1000000 ifname: eth1 |
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flows: 0 flowlen: 0 |
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dst_min: 10.10.11.2 dst_max: |
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src_min: src_max: |
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src_mac: 00:00:00:00:00:00 dst_mac: 00:04:23:AC:FD:82 |
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udp_src_min: 9 udp_src_max: 9 udp_dst_min: 9 udp_dst_max: 9 |
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src_mac_count: 0 dst_mac_count: 0 |
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Flags: |
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Current: |
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pkts-sofar: 10000000 errors: 39664 |
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started: 1103053986245187us stopped: 1103053999346329us idle: 880401us |
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seq_num: 10000011 cur_dst_mac_offset: 0 cur_src_mac_offset: 0 |
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cur_saddr: 0x10a0a0a cur_daddr: 0x20b0a0a |
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cur_udp_dst: 9 cur_udp_src: 9 |
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flows: 0 |
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Result: OK: 13101142(c12220741+d880401) usec, 10000000 (60byte,0frags) |
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763292pps 390Mb/sec (390805504bps) errors: 39664 |
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Configuring threads and devices |
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This is done via the /proc interface easiest done via pgset in the scripts |
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Examples: |
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pgset "clone_skb 1" sets the number of copies of the same packet |
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pgset "clone_skb 0" use single SKB for all transmits |
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pgset "burst 8" uses xmit_more API to queue 8 copies of the same |
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packet and update HW tx queue tail pointer once. |
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"burst 1" is the default |
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pgset "pkt_size 9014" sets packet size to 9014 |
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pgset "frags 5" packet will consist of 5 fragments |
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pgset "count 200000" sets number of packets to send, set to zero |
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for continuous sends until explicitly stopped. |
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pgset "delay 5000" adds delay to hard_start_xmit(). nanoseconds |
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pgset "dst 10.0.0.1" sets IP destination address |
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(BEWARE! This generator is very aggressive!) |
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pgset "dst_min 10.0.0.1" Same as dst |
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pgset "dst_max 10.0.0.254" Set the maximum destination IP. |
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pgset "src_min 10.0.0.1" Set the minimum (or only) source IP. |
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pgset "src_max 10.0.0.254" Set the maximum source IP. |
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pgset "dst6 fec0::1" IPV6 destination address |
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pgset "src6 fec0::2" IPV6 source address |
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pgset "dstmac 00:00:00:00:00:00" sets MAC destination address |
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pgset "srcmac 00:00:00:00:00:00" sets MAC source address |
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pgset "queue_map_min 0" Sets the min value of tx queue interval |
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pgset "queue_map_max 7" Sets the max value of tx queue interval, for multiqueue devices |
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To select queue 1 of a given device, |
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use queue_map_min=1 and queue_map_max=1 |
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pgset "src_mac_count 1" Sets the number of MACs we'll range through. |
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The 'minimum' MAC is what you set with srcmac. |
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pgset "dst_mac_count 1" Sets the number of MACs we'll range through. |
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The 'minimum' MAC is what you set with dstmac. |
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pgset "flag [name]" Set a flag to determine behaviour. Current flags |
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are: IPSRC_RND # IP source is random (between min/max) |
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IPDST_RND # IP destination is random |
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UDPSRC_RND, UDPDST_RND, |
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MACSRC_RND, MACDST_RND |
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TXSIZE_RND, IPV6, |
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MPLS_RND, VID_RND, SVID_RND |
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FLOW_SEQ, |
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QUEUE_MAP_RND # queue map random |
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QUEUE_MAP_CPU # queue map mirrors smp_processor_id() |
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UDPCSUM, |
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IPSEC # IPsec encapsulation (needs CONFIG_XFRM) |
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NODE_ALLOC # node specific memory allocation |
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pgset spi SPI_VALUE Set specific SA used to transform packet. |
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pgset "udp_src_min 9" set UDP source port min, If < udp_src_max, then |
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cycle through the port range. |
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pgset "udp_src_max 9" set UDP source port max. |
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pgset "udp_dst_min 9" set UDP destination port min, If < udp_dst_max, then |
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cycle through the port range. |
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pgset "udp_dst_max 9" set UDP destination port max. |
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pgset "mpls 0001000a,0002000a,0000000a" set MPLS labels (in this example |
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outer label=16,middle label=32, |
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inner label=0 (IPv4 NULL)) Note that |
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there must be no spaces between the |
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arguments. Leading zeros are required. |
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Do not set the bottom of stack bit, |
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that's done automatically. If you do |
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set the bottom of stack bit, that |
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indicates that you want to randomly |
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generate that address and the flag |
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MPLS_RND will be turned on. You |
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can have any mix of random and fixed |
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labels in the label stack. |
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pgset "mpls 0" turn off mpls (or any invalid argument works too!) |
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pgset "vlan_id 77" set VLAN ID 0-4095 |
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pgset "vlan_p 3" set priority bit 0-7 (default 0) |
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pgset "vlan_cfi 0" set canonical format identifier 0-1 (default 0) |
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pgset "svlan_id 22" set SVLAN ID 0-4095 |
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pgset "svlan_p 3" set priority bit 0-7 (default 0) |
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pgset "svlan_cfi 0" set canonical format identifier 0-1 (default 0) |
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pgset "vlan_id 9999" > 4095 remove vlan and svlan tags |
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pgset "svlan 9999" > 4095 remove svlan tag |
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pgset "tos XX" set former IPv4 TOS field (e.g. "tos 28" for AF11 no ECN, default 00) |
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pgset "traffic_class XX" set former IPv6 TRAFFIC CLASS (e.g. "traffic_class B8" for EF no ECN, default 00) |
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pgset stop aborts injection. Also, ^C aborts generator. |
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pgset "rate 300M" set rate to 300 Mb/s |
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pgset "ratep 1000000" set rate to 1Mpps |
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Example scripts |
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=============== |
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A collection of small tutorial scripts for pktgen is in examples dir. |
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pktgen.conf-1-1 # 1 CPU 1 dev |
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pktgen.conf-1-2 # 1 CPU 2 dev |
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pktgen.conf-2-1 # 2 CPU's 1 dev |
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pktgen.conf-2-2 # 2 CPU's 2 dev |
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pktgen.conf-1-1-rdos # 1 CPU 1 dev w. route DoS |
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pktgen.conf-1-1-ip6 # 1 CPU 1 dev ipv6 |
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pktgen.conf-1-1-ip6-rdos # 1 CPU 1 dev ipv6 w. route DoS |
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pktgen.conf-1-1-flows # 1 CPU 1 dev multiple flows. |
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Run in shell: ./pktgen.conf-X-Y It does all the setup including sending. |
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Interrupt affinity |
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Note when adding devices to a specific CPU there good idea to also assign |
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/proc/irq/XX/smp_affinity so the TX-interrupts gets bound to the same CPU. |
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as this reduces cache bouncing when freeing skb's. |
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Enable IPsec |
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Default IPsec transformation with ESP encapsulation plus Transport mode |
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could be enabled by simply setting: |
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pgset "flag IPSEC" |
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pgset "flows 1" |
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To avoid breaking existing testbed scripts for using AH type and tunnel mode, |
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user could use "pgset spi SPI_VALUE" to specify which formal of transformation |
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to employ. |
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Current commands and configuration options |
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** Pgcontrol commands: |
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start |
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stop |
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** Thread commands: |
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add_device |
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rem_device_all |
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max_before_softirq |
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** Device commands: |
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count |
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clone_skb |
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debug |
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frags |
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delay |
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src_mac_count |
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dst_mac_count |
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pkt_size |
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min_pkt_size |
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max_pkt_size |
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mpls |
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udp_src_min |
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udp_src_max |
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udp_dst_min |
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udp_dst_max |
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flag |
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IPSRC_RND |
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IPDST_RND |
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UDPSRC_RND |
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UDPDST_RND |
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MACSRC_RND |
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MACDST_RND |
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TXSIZE_RND |
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IPV6 |
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MPLS_RND |
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VID_RND |
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SVID_RND |
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FLOW_SEQ |
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QUEUE_MAP_RND |
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QUEUE_MAP_CPU |
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UDPCSUM |
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IPSEC |
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NODE_ALLOC |
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dst_min |
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dst_max |
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src_min |
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src_max |
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dst_mac |
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src_mac |
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clear_counters |
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dst6 |
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src6 |
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flows |
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flowlen |
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rate |
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ratep |
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References: |
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ftp://robur.slu.se/pub/Linux/net-development/pktgen-testing/ |
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ftp://robur.slu.se/pub/Linux/net-development/pktgen-testing/examples/ |
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Paper from Linux-Kongress in Erlangen 2004. |
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ftp://robur.slu.se/pub/Linux/net-development/pktgen-testing/pktgen_paper.pdf |
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Thanks to: |
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Grant Grundler for testing on IA-64 and parisc, Harald Welte, Lennert Buytenhek |
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Stephen Hemminger, Andi Kleen, Dave Miller and many others. |
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Good luck with the linux net-development.
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