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| author |   Christian Trautman <ctrautma@redhat.com> | 2017-10-04 10:34:46 -0400 |
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| committer |   Martin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com> | 2017-10-20 10:27:31 +0000 |
| commit | d126de94bea2e5d0e237dc6a3373fd3d53e3cfa3 (patch) | |
| tree | 4e0139f8b8f268a63a037ae2f221d1ee7bef1c7c /docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst | |
| parent | 55429d9203032fe7b5dd9ac81cec81cec4e4a17d (diff) | |
trex_multistream: Add multistream support to T-Rexopnfv-5.1.0opnfv-5.0.RC1opnfv-5.0.0stable/euphrates
Adds incremental source multi-stream functionality to
T-Rex traffic generator code in VSPerf.
JIRA: VSPERF-532
Change-Id: Ib5ba326699d89350ac1715c9a4276e5fa46a133e
Signed-off-by: Christian Trautman <ctrautma@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit d4054052bdc6d9417e27f81f2434bcf1f2149972)
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst b/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst index 597f566b..4b9eec6e 100644 --- a/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst +++ b/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst @@ -826,14 +826,17 @@ Default value of this parameter is defined in conf/03_traffic.conf as follows: TRAFFICGEN_TREX_RFC2544_TPUT_THRESHOLD = '' -SR-IOV -~~~~~~ +SR-IOV and Multistream layer 2 +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ T-Rex by default only accepts packets on the receive side if the destination mac matches the MAC address specified in the /etc/trex-cfg.yaml on the server side. For SR-IOV this creates challenges with modifying the MAC address in the traffic profile to correctly flow packets through specified VFs. To remove this limitation enable promiscuous mode on T-Rex to allow all packets regardless of the destination mac to be accepted. +This also creates problems when doing multistream at layer 2 since the source macs will be +modified. Enable Promiscuous mode when doing multistream at layer 2 testing with T-Rex. + .. code-block:: console TRAFFICGEN_TREX_PROMISCUOUS=True |