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| author |   Christian Trautman <ctrautma@redhat.com> | 2017-09-25 17:22:38 -0400 |
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| committer | Christian Trautman <ctrautma@redhat.com> | 2017-09-25 17:22:38 -0400 |
| commit | 5d08ffdf317d31361a528bf1b6d33cd4d0007600 (patch) | |
| tree | 49bb5ca1e3de78dc198d5192107f32649eacbd8a /docs/testing | |
| parent | 0549aa1f1a694899fec3b16b44230b5c60d2fa29 (diff) | |
trex_prom: Add promiscuous option for trex for SRIOV tests
Adds option to enable promiscuous mode for Trex traffic
generator to allow for SR-IOV tests to work correctly.
Trex by default only accepts packets based on destination
MAC address matching what is configured on server in
/etc/trex-cfg.yaml. This removes that limitation since
SR-IOV tests require mac addresses to be modified in the
generated packets to correctly route packets to the relevant
VFs.
JIRA: VSPERF-531
Change-Id: I19b64f364c8a1b656994c82c96f47a68b92486d8
Signed-off-by: Christian Trautman <ctrautma@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/testing')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst b/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst index 7c14c55d..2d2b9a9e 100644 --- a/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst +++ b/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst @@ -821,3 +821,15 @@ Default value of this parameter is defined in conf/03_traffic.conf as follows: .. code-block:: console TRAFFICGEN_TREX_RFC2544_TPUT_THRESHOLD = '' + +SR-IOV +~~~~~~ +T-Rex by default only accepts packets on the receive side if the destination mac matches the +MAC address specificed 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. + +.. code-block:: console + + TRAFFICGEN_TREX_PROMISCUOUS=True |