Pktgen is a traffic generator powered by Intel's DPDK at 10Gbit wire rate traffic with 64 byte frames.
Please look at the product eval PDF and the 3rd party PDF for license information.
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====================== Part of the README file ===========================
Copyright © <2010-2013>, Wind River Systems, Inc.
Contact me if you have questions @ pktgen.dpdk@gmail.com<br>
Source can be found on GitHub: http://github.com/Pktgen/Pktgen-DPDK
README for setting up Pktgen with DPDK on Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.10 desktop, it should work on most Linux systems as long as the kernel has hugeTLB support.
Note: Tested with Ubuntu 12.10 kernel version
Linux 3.5.0-25-generic #39-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 25 18:26:58 UTC 2013 x86_64
I am using Ubuntu 12.10 x86_64 (64 bit support) for running pktgen/DPDK on a Westmere Dual socket board running at 2.4GHz with 12GB of ram 6GB per socket. The current kernel version is 3.5.0-25 (as of 2013-03-18) support, but should work on just about any new Linux kernel version.
To get hugeTLB support your Linux kernel must be at least 2.6.33 and in the DPDK documents it talks about how you can upgrade your Linux kernel.
The pktgen output display needs 132 columns and about 42 lines to display correctly. I am using an xterm of 132x42, but you can have a larger display and maybe a bit smaller. If you are displaying more then 4-6 ports then you will need a wider display. The pktgen allows you to view a set ports if they do not all fit on the screen at one time via the 'page' command in pktgen. Type 'help' at the 'pktgen>' prompt to see the complete pktgen commands. Pktgen uses VT100 control codes or escape codes to display the screens, which means your terminal must support VT100. The Hyperterminal in windows is not going to work for Pktgen as it has a few problems with VT100 codes.
The pktgen program as built can send up to 16 packets per port in a sequence and you can configure a port using the 'seq' pktgen command. A script file can be loaded from the shell command line via the -f option and you can 'load' a script file from within pktgen as well.
Pktgen has four different sets of packet buffers to be used for a given type of data to be sent on the wire per port. The four buffer types are single packet, 16 sequence packets, range packets and PCAP packet buffers.
The single packet buffer is defined by the information on the main screen. Each port in the system has a column of information on the screen to each single packet. The information toward the bottom of the column is the IP address, port numbers and MAC addresses for the single packet. When you do a 'start N' command and you have not setup any other type of packets to send on that port it will send the packet defined on the screen.
The next type of buffers are the sequence packets, which is a set of packet (up to 16) for each port. Each port can have a different set of sequence packets or be able to send other types of packets like single packet type. If you execute the command 'page seq' it will display the port 0 sequence packets and using the command 'port X' you can change to another port while in the sequence screen. Also using the set seqCnt command you can assign 1 to 16 different packets to the port. Using the commands you can set a given sequence packet information for a given port. The command starts with 'seq' and you can look at the help screen to determine the command usage.
The next type of packet buffers is the range packets. The user is allowed to set up ranges for the packets by adjusting the values or ranges for a number of fields in the packet like IP address, MAC address, port numbers, packet sizes and a number of other options. Using the range command 'page range' you can look at the port values the range packets for a given port and using 'port X' to switch to different ports. This option needs to be enabled per port just like sequence packets must be enabled. The flags value at the top of the screen on each port help the user to see how they are configured.
The last type of packet buffers is the PCAP packets. Pktgen will load a PCAP file from the command line for a given port using X:filename.pcap where X is the port number. To have Pktgen send the PCAP file you must also enable the port to send that PCAP file. You can switch from one type of packet buffer to another at will and Pktgen will remember the configuration of the other packet buffers in the system. If you want to save the configuration you need to a 'save' command to write the configuration to a file. You can then load that file again using the load command or place it on the command line.
- Ports 0-3 of 4 ** Main Page ** Copyright (c) <2010-2013>, Wind River Systems, Inc., Powered by Intel® DPDK
Flags:Port : P-----------:0 P-----------:1 P-----------:2 P-----------:3
Link State : <UP-10000-FD> <UP-10000-FD> <UP-10000-FD> <UP-10000-FD> ---TotalRate---
Pkts/s Rx : 0 0 0 0 0
Tx : 0 0 0 0 0
MBits/s Rx/Tx : 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0
Broadcast : 0 0 0 0
Multicast : 0 0 0 0
64 Bytes : 0 0 0 0
65-127 : 0 0 0 0
128-255 : 0 0 0 0
256-511 : 0 0 0 0
512-1023 : 0 0 0 0
1024-1518 : 0 0 0 0
Runts : 0 0 0 0
Jumbo : 0 0 0 0
Errors Rx/Tx : 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0
Total Rx Pkts : 0 0 0 0
Tx Pkts : 0 0 0 0
Rx MBs : 0 0 0 0
Tx MBs : 0 0 0 0
ARP/ICMP Pkts : 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0
No Mbufs/unknown : 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0
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Tx Count/% Rate : Forever/100% Forever/100% Forever/100% Forever/100%
PktSize/Tx Burst : 64/128 64/128 64/128 64/128
Src/Dest Port : 1234/5678 1234/5678 1234/5678 1234/5678
Pkt Type:VLAN ID : IPv4/TCP:0001 IPv4/TCP:0001 IPv4/TCP:0001 IPv4/TCP:0001
Dst IP Address : 192.168.1.1 192.168.0.1 192.168.3.1 192.168.2.1
Src IP Address : 192.168.0.1/24 192.168.1.1/24 192.168.2.1/24 192.168.3.1/24
Dst MAC Address : 001b:218e:b1e9 001b:218e:b1e8 001b:218e:b761 001b:218e:b760
Src MAC Address : 001b:218e:b1e8 001b:218e:b1e9 001b:218e:b760 001b:218e:b761
- Pktgen Ver:1.9.1(DPDK-1.3.0) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
pktgen> quit
Here is the help screen:
*** Help Information for Pktgen *** Copyright (c) <2010-2013>, Wind River Systems, Inc.
set <portlist> <xxx> value - Set a few port values
<portlist> - a list of ports as 2,4,6-9,12 or the word 'all'
<xxx> count - number of packets to transmit
size - size of the packet to transmit
rate - Packet rate in percentage
burst - number of packets in a burst
sport - Source port number for TCP
dport - Destination port number for TCP
prime - Set the number of packets to send on prime command
seqCnt - Set the number of packet in the sequence to send
seq <seq#> <portlist> dst-Mac src-Mac dst-IP src-IP sport dport ipv4|ipv6 udp|tcp|icmp vid pktsize
- Set the sequence packet information, make sure the src-IP
has the netmask value eg 1.2.3.4/24
save filename - Save a configuration file using the filename
ppp [1-6] - Set the number of ports displayed per page
icmp.echo <portlist> <state> - Enable/disable ICMP echo responses per port
send arp req|grat <portlist> - Send a ARP request or gratuitous ARP on a set of ports
set mac <portlist> etheraddr - Set MAC addresses 00:11:22:33:44:55
You can use 0011:2233:4455 format as well
mac_from_arp <state> - Set the option to get MAC from ARP request
set udp|tcp|icmp <portlist> - Set the packet type UDP or TCP or ICMP per port
set ipv4|ipv6|vlan <portlist> - Set the packet type to IPv4 or IPv6 or VLAN
set ip src|dst <portlist> ipaddr - Set IP addresses
geometry <geom> - Set the display geometry Columns by Rows (ColxRow)
tap <portlist> <state> - Enable/disable tap interface support
vlan <portlist> <state> - Enable/disable sending VLAN ID in packets
vlanid <portlist> <vlanid> - Set the VLAN ID for the portlist
pcap <portlist> <state> - Enable or Disable sending pcap packets on a portlist
pcap.show - Show the PCAP information
pcap.index - Move the PCAP file index to the given packet number, 0 - rewind, -1 - end of file
script <filename> - Execute the Lua script code in file (www.lua.org).
ping4 <portlist> - Send a IPv4 ICMP echo request on the given portlist
page [0-7]|range|config|seq|pcap|next|cpu- Show the port pages or configuration or sequence page
[0-7] - Page of different ports
range - Display the range packet page
config - Display the configuration page (not used)
pcap - Display the pcap page
cpu - Display some information about the CPU system
next - Display next page of PCAP packets.
sequence | seq - sequence will display a set of packets for a given port
Note: use the 'port <number>' to display a new port sequence
port <number> - Sets the sequence of packets to display for a given port
process <portlist> <state> - Enable or Disable processing of ARP/ICMP/IPv4/IPv6 packets
blink <portlist> <state> - Blink the link led on the given port list
start <portlist> - Start transmitting packets
stop <portlist> - Stop transmitting packets
stp - Stop all ports from transmitting
str - Start all ports transmitting
screen stop|start - stop/start updating the screen and unlock/lock window
off - screen off shortcut
on - screen on shortcut
prime <portlist> - Transmit N packets on each port listed. See set prime command above
delay milliseconds - Wait a number of milliseconds for scripting commands
sleep seconds - Wait a number of seconds for scripting commands
load <path> - Load a command/script file from the given path
pci show - Show the PCI bus devices
clear <portlist> - Clear the statistics
clr - Clear all Statistices
cls - Clear the screen
reset <portlist> - Reset the configuration to the default
rst - Reset the configuration for all ports
help - Display this help message
quit - Quit the Pktgen program
-- Setup the packet range values --
dst.mac start <portlist> etheraddr - Set destination MAC address start
src.mac start <portlist> etheraddr - Set source MAC address start
src.ip start <portlist> ipaddr - Set source IP start address
src.ip min <portlist> ipaddr - Set source IP minimum address
src.ip max <portlist> ipaddr - Set source IP maximum address
src.ip inc <portlist> ipaddr - Set source IP increment address
dst.ip start <portlist> ipaddr - Set destination IP start address
dst.ip min <portlist> ipaddr - Set destination IP minimum address
dst.ip max <portlist> ipaddr - Set destination IP maximum address
dst.ip inc <portlist> ipaddr - Set destination IP increment address
src.port start <portlist> value - Set source port start address
src.port min <portlist> value - Set source port minimum address
src.port max <portlist> value - Set source port maximum address
src.port inc <portlist> value - Set source port increment address
dst.port start <portlist> value - Set source port start address
dst.port min <portlist> value - Set source port minimum address
dst.port max <portlist> value - Set source port maximum address
dst.port inc <portlist> value - Set source port increment address
vlan.id start <portlist> value - Set vlan id start address
vlan.id min <portlist> value - Set vlan id minimum address
vlan.id max <portlist> value - Set vlan id maximum address
vlan.id inc <portlist> value - Set vlan id increment address
pkt.size start <portlist> value - Set vlan id start address
pkt.size min <portlist> value - Set vlan id minimum address
pkt.size max <portlist> value - Set vlan id maximum address
pkt.size inc <portlist> value - Set vlan id increment address
range <portlist> <state> - Enable or Disable the given portlist for sending a range of packets
Notes: <state> - Use enable|disable or on|off to set the state.
Flags: P----------- - Promiscuous mode enabled
E - ICMP Echo enabled
A - Send ARP Request flag
G - Send Gratuitous ARP flag
C - TX Cleanup flag
p - PCAP enabled flag
S - Send Sequence packets enabled
R - Send Range packets enabled
D - DPI Scanning enabled (If Enabled)
I - Process packets on input enabled
T - Using TAP interface for this port
V - Send VLAN ID tag
<Press Return to Continue>
Thanks ++Keith