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diff --git a/docs/configguide/trafficgen.rst b/docs/configguide/trafficgen.rst index f612569f..63560b9c 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: @@ -253,6 +254,8 @@ folder. Contact Xena Networks for the latest version of this file. The user can also visit www.xenanetworks/downloads to obtain the file with a valid support contract. +**Note** VSPerf has been fully tested with version v2.43 of Xena2544.exe + To execute the Xena2544.exe file under Linux distributions the mono-complete package must be installed. To install this package follow the instructions below. Further information can be obtained from @@ -287,3 +290,45 @@ 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> |