From 8755c892f6cfbfb8ca4f3405675dfe770c769605 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: fmenguy Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 18:26:41 +0200 Subject: NFVBENCH-163: Add gratuitous ARP in case of L3 router mode Change-Id: Iec2b186176285f723eb2685319c55e6cd6d33a8a Signed-off-by: fmenguy --- docs/testing/user/userguide/pvpl3.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/testing/user/userguide/pvpl3.rst b/docs/testing/user/userguide/pvpl3.rst index f2b3d51..003e4c1 100644 --- a/docs/testing/user/userguide/pvpl3.rst +++ b/docs/testing/user/userguide/pvpl3.rst @@ -64,3 +64,6 @@ Upon start, NFVbench will: Please note: ``l3_router`` option is also compatible with external routers. In this case NFVBench will use ``EXT`` chain. + +.. note:: Using a long NFVbench run test, end-to-end connectivity can be lost depending on ARP stale time SUT configuration. +To avoid this issue, activate Gratuitous ARP stream using ``--gratuitous-arp`` or ``-garp`` option. \ No newline at end of file -- cgit 1.2.3-korg