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Ostinato has been there for a while. I think it is the best you can get as opensource traffic generator, if you don't have access to commercial hardware (Ixia,

by mino 10y ago

Ostinato has been there for a while. I think it is the best you can get as opensource traffic generator, if you don't have access to commercial hardware (Ixia, Spirent, etc.). Also, there's this project based on the VPP dataplane technology, which could help you achieve higher bitrates. Personally I haven't managed to play with it yet: https://trex-tgn.cisco.com/ https://trex-tgn.cisco.com/

signa11 10y ago
> Also, there's this project based on the VPP dataplane technology... vpp is primarily based on dpdk, specifically, it utilizes their pmd etc. implementation for fast packet-io in userland. ostinato too has this feature i.e. line-rate packet generation using dpdk.
- bogomipz 10y ago
  Do you have good links you can share in regards to vpp and leveraging of dpdk?
  - signa11 10y ago
    > Do you have good links you can share in regards to vpp and leveraging of dpdk? sorry for the late reply. here are a few presentations: 1. https://dpdksummit.com/Archive/pdf/2016USA/Day02-Session04-ThomasHerbert-DPDKUSASummit2016.pdf https://dpdksummit.com/Archive/pdf/2016USA/Day02-Session04-T... 2. https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/96/slides/slides-96-bmwg-10.pdf https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/96/slides/slides-96-bmwg-10... you might be able to find videos on youtube as well. lemme know if you need some more info, and i can dig some more.
bogomipz 10y ago
>" if you don't have access to commercial hardware (Ixia, Spirent, etc.)." Is there a way with Ostinato do 10's of Gigs of traffic sustained(perhaps by leveraging a fleet of them)? I didn't see anything in my cursory look at the docs. That's one of the reasons that Ixia, Spirent are able to command the price tags they do(I think they're' baseline $100K)