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Add 128, 512, 1500 and 9000 byte packet test dumps #668

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This adds some more PCAP dumps (128, 512, 1500 and 9000 byte packet) for use with packetblaster.

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lukego commented Nov 30, 2015

This seems sensible but it does highlight a limitation of the packetblaster UI i.e. the lack of a simple method to describe the packet(s) that should be sent. I suppose this could be done either inside packetblaster or with a utility to generate the pcap files programatically rather than as opaque binaries. (See also Scapy).

I suppose that improving packetblaster is a whole topic of its own though. One more feature that we are sorely lacking is to perform basic handshaking with a router (e.g. ARP or IPv6 neighbor discovery) so that we can generate load when there is a router between packetblaster and the system under test. (Have needed this in the past and worked around e.g. with a static configuration on the router.)

Lots of unrealized potential in the packetblaster program...

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@lukego I am thinking about making my winter intern extend packetblaster to generate its own packages. It seems like a well-sized task for an intern. :)

lukego added a commit to lukego/snabb that referenced this pull request Dec 1, 2015
@eugeneia eugeneia merged commit 8a88beb into snabbco:master Dec 4, 2015
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