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| author |   bmichalo <bmichalo@redhat.com> | 2016-06-29 11:48:14 -0400 |
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| committer | bmichalo <bmichalo@redhat.com> | 2016-06-30 09:55:57 -0400 |
| commit | 65fe101fb2c040ef7c43fa719f0bc52d434489b6 (patch) | |
| tree | d69c37c0d82af3d33be2a3810dda1ae6a3976797 /docs/configguide/trafficgen.rst | |
| parent | e04b1b9a22f93bb1783ff9e82486aec38dcb0efb (diff) | |
pkt_gen: Adding MoonGen traffic generator
Adds support for the MoonGen packet generator.
The following traffic types are included:
* RFC 2544 Throughput: Synchronous Interface
* RFC 2544 Back 2 Back: Synchronous Interface
* Continous Flow: Synchronous Interface
JIRA: VSPERF-168
Sample log of execution can be found as an
attachment within JIRA VSPERF-168
Change-Id: I5bb84290945f4ba41bc962370e643bbbeff0e486
Signed-off-by: bmichalo <bmichalo@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/configguide/trafficgen.rst')
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1 files changed, 43 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/configguide/trafficgen.rst b/docs/configguide/trafficgen.rst index f612569f..82821a04 100644 --- a/docs/configguide/trafficgen.rst +++ b/docs/configguide/trafficgen.rst @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ VSPERF supports the following traffic generators: * IXIA (IxNet and IxOS) * Spirent TestCenter * Xena Networks + * MoonGen To see the list of traffic gens from the cli: @@ -287,3 +288,45 @@ set to allow for proper connections to the chassis. TRAFFICGEN_XENA_PASSWORD = '' TRAFFICGEN_XENA_MODULE1 = '' TRAFFICGEN_XENA_MODULE2 = '' + + +MoonGen +------- + +Installation +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +MoonGen architecture overview and general installation instructions +can be found here: + +https://github.com/emmericp/MoonGen + +For VSPerf use, MoonGen should be cloned from here (as opposed to the afore +mentioned GitHub): + +git clone https://github.com/atheurer/MoonGen + +and use the opnfv-stable branch: + +git checkout opnfv-stable + +VSPerf uses a particular example script under the examples directory within +the MoonGen project: + +MoonGen/examples/opnfv-vsperf.lua + +Follow MoonGen set up instructions here: + +https://github.com/atheurer/MoonGen/blob/opnfv-stable/MoonGenSetUp.html + +Note one will need to set up ssh login to not use passwords between the server +running MoonGen and the device under test (running the VSPERF test +infrastructure). This is because VSPERF on one server uses 'ssh' to +configure and run MoonGen upon the other server. + +One can set up this ssh access by doing the following on both servers: + +.. code-block:: console + + ssh-keygen -b 2048 -t rsa + ssh-copy-id <other server> |