IMIX or similiar near-user-load packet generator

Wed Oct 21 02:37:36 UTC 2015

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:01 AM, Stanislaw Datskevich <me at nek0.net> wrote:

> Thanks, Snabb Switch's packetblaster seems to be what I am looking for.
> My goal using it is to find out how much of real users traffic my new
> softrouter can handle until it begin doing packet drops.
>

I would recommend Trex with pkgtgen-dpdk or netmap's pkgt-gen. Have your
current router average packet size and rate and generate those patterns. If
you just use the suggested tools the traffic pattern may be different from
what you actually have.

http://trex-tgn.cisco.com
https://github.com/luigirizzo/netmap

> > Snabb Switch (https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch/)
> > Ostinato as already mentioned (http://ostinato.org/)
> >
> > - jkt
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 9:24 AM Jerry Jones <jjones at danrj.com> wrote:
> > > Ostinato?
> > > On Oct 19, 2015, at 4:22 AM, Stanislaw Datskevich <me at nek0.net>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all.
> > > Is there any opensource packet generator which can simulate a load
> > > closest to real users? Usually I use iperf, but it can simply
> > > generate
> > > huge load.
> > >
> > >
>