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diff --git a/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst b/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst index 52b1b4a5..f9e2db11 100644 --- a/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst +++ b/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ and is configured as follows: TRAFFIC = { 'traffic_type' : 'rfc2544_throughput', 'frame_rate' : 100, + 'burst_size' : 100, 'bidir' : 'True', # will be passed as string in title format to tgen 'multistream' : 0, 'stream_type' : 'L4', @@ -75,8 +76,22 @@ and is configured as follows: 'count': 1, 'filter': '', }, + 'scapy': { + 'enabled': False, + '0' : 'Ether(src={Ether_src}, dst={Ether_dst})/' + 'Dot1Q(prio={Dot1Q_prio}, id={Dot1Q_id}, vlan={Dot1Q_vlan})/' + 'IP(proto={IP_proto}, src={IP_src}, dst={IP_dst})/' + '{IP_PROTO}(sport={IP_PROTO_sport}, dport={IP_PROTO_dport})', + '1' : 'Ether(src={Ether_dst}, dst={Ether_src})/' + 'Dot1Q(prio={Dot1Q_prio}, id={Dot1Q_id}, vlan={Dot1Q_vlan})/' + 'IP(proto={IP_proto}, src={IP_dst}, dst={IP_src})/' + '{IP_PROTO}(sport={IP_PROTO_dport}, dport={IP_PROTO_sport})', + } } +A detailed description of the ``TRAFFIC`` dictionary can be found at +:ref:`configuration-of-traffic-dictionary`. + The framesize parameter can be overridden from the configuration files by adding the following to your custom configuration file ``10_custom.conf``: @@ -857,6 +872,21 @@ place. This can be adjusted with the following configurations: TRAFFICGEN_TREX_LEARNING_MODE=True TRAFFICGEN_TREX_LEARNING_DURATION=5 +Latency measurements have impact on T-Rex performance. Thus vswitchperf uses a separate +latency stream for each direction with limited speed. This workaround is used for RFC2544 +**Throughput** and **Continuous** traffic types. In case of **Burst** traffic type, +the latency statistics are measured for all frames in the burst. Collection of latency +statistics is driven by configuration option ``TRAFFICGEN_TREX_LATENCY_PPS`` as follows: + + * value ``0`` - disables latency measurements + * non zero integer value - enables latency measurements; In case of Throughput + and Continuous traffic types, it specifies a speed of latency specific stream + in PPS. In case of burst traffic type, it enables latency measurements for all frames. + +.. code-block:: console + + TRAFFICGEN_TREX_LATENCY_PPS = 1000 + SR-IOV and Multistream layer 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ T-Rex by default only accepts packets on the receive side if the destination mac matches the @@ -907,3 +937,72 @@ The duration and maximum number of attempted verification trials can be set to c behavior of this step. If the verification step fails, it will resume the binary search with new values where the maximum output will be the last attempted frame rate minus the current set thresh hold. + +Scapy frame definition +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +It is possible to use a SCAPY frame definition to generate various network protocols +by the **T-Rex** traffic generator. In case that particular network protocol layer +is disabled by the TRAFFIC dictionary (e.g. TRAFFIC['vlan']['enabled'] = False), +then disabled layer will be removed from the scapy format definition by VSPERF. + +The scapy frame definition can refer to values defined by the TRAFFIC dictionary +by following keywords. These keywords are used in next examples. + +* ``Ether_src`` - refers to ``TRAFFIC['l2']['srcmac']`` +* ``Ether_dst`` - refers to ``TRAFFIC['l2']['dstmac']`` +* ``IP_proto`` - refers to ``TRAFFIC['l3']['proto']`` +* ``IP_PROTO`` - refers to upper case version of ``TRAFFIC['l3']['proto']`` +* ``IP_src`` - refers to ``TRAFFIC['l3']['srcip']`` +* ``IP_dst`` - refers to ``TRAFFIC['l3']['dstip']`` +* ``IP_PROTO_sport`` - refers to ``TRAFFIC['l4']['srcport']`` +* ``IP_PROTO_dport`` - refers to ``TRAFFIC['l4']['dstport']`` +* ``Dot1Q_prio`` - refers to ``TRAFFIC['vlan']['priority']`` +* ``Dot1Q_id`` - refers to ``TRAFFIC['vlan']['cfi']`` +* ``Dot1Q_vlan`` - refers to ``TRAFFIC['vlan']['id']`` + +In following examples of SCAPY frame definition only relevant parts of TRAFFIC +dictionary are shown. The rest of the TRAFFIC dictionary is set to default values +as they are defined in ``conf/03_traffic.conf``. + +Please check official documentation of SCAPY project for details about SCAPY frame +definition and supported network layers at: http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy + +#. Generate ICMP frames: + + .. code-block:: console + + 'scapy': { + 'enabled': True, + '0' : 'Ether(src={Ether_src}, dst={Ether_dst})/IP(proto={IP_proto}, src={IP_src}, dst={IP_dst})/ICMP()', + '1' : 'Ether(src={Ether_dst}, dst={Ether_src})/IP(proto={IP_proto}, src={IP_dst}, dst={IP_src})/ICMP()', + } + +#. Generate IPv6 ICMP Echo Request + + .. code-block:: console + + 'l3' : { + 'srcip': 'feed::01', + 'dstip': 'feed::02', + }, + 'scapy': { + 'enabled': True, + '0' : 'Ether(src={Ether_src}, dst={Ether_dst})/IPv6(src={IP_src}, dst={IP_dst})/ICMPv6EchoRequest()', + '1' : 'Ether(src={Ether_dst}, dst={Ether_src})/IPv6(src={IP_dst}, dst={IP_src})/ICMPv6EchoRequest()', + } + +#. Generate SCTP frames: + + Example uses default SCAPY frame definition, which can reflect ``TRAFFIC['l3']['proto']`` settings. The same + approach can be used to generate other protocols, e.g. TCP. + + .. code-block:: console + + 'l3' : { + 'proto' : 'sctp', + }, + 'scapy': { + 'enabled': True, + } + |