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| author |   Martin Klozik <martinx.klozik@intel.com> | 2017-10-20 10:22:08 +0000 |
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| committer |   Gerrit Code Review <gerrit@opnfv.org> | 2017-10-20 10:22:08 +0000 |
| commit | 518d5bae6b5603b5b605830c690b0e91d0d26cd7 (patch) | |
| tree | aa6a00f6fa83f18a9342e834fb9bdb3e645241a2 /docs/testing/user/configguide | |
| parent | e1080a507901f7b957f24c75170594b4f9bc9740 (diff) | |
| parent | d4054052bdc6d9417e27f81f2434bcf1f2149972 (diff) | |
Merge "trex_multistream: Add multistream support to T-Rex"
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/testing/user/configguide')
| -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 |