trafficgen: pause trafficgenerator

Add a mode to pause the traffic generator before transmission to bypass
manual setup if required.

Change-Id: Iad62a5e7cb83a311e2814d8a9ee2bc9b2d2ed4de
Signed-off-by: Maryam Tahhan <maryam.tahhan@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Trautman <ctrautma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Al Morton <acmorton@att.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/vsperf b/vsperf
index 63913c77..d141227c 100755
--- a/vsperf
+++ b/vsperf
@@ -145,7 +145,8 @@ def parse_arguments():
     group.add_argument('-m', '--mode', help='vsperf mode of operation;\
             Values: "normal" - execute vSwitch, VNF and traffic generator;\
             "trafficgen" - execute only traffic generator; "trafficgen-off" \
-            - execute vSwitch and VNF', default='normal')
+            - execute vSwitch and VNF; trafficgen-pause - execute vSwitch \
+            and VNF but pause before traffic transmission ', default='normal')
 
     group.add_argument('-f', '--test-spec', help='test specification file')
     group.add_argument('-d', '--test-dir', help='directory containing tests')