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diff --git a/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst b/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst index 2d2b9a9e..597f566b 100644 --- a/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst +++ b/docs/testing/user/configguide/trafficgen.rst @@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ Ixia ---- VSPERF can use both IxNetwork and IxExplorer TCL servers to control Ixia chassis. -However usage of IxNetwork TCL server is a preferred option. Following sections +However, usage of IxNetwork TCL server is a preferred option. The following sections will describe installation and configuration of IxNetwork components used by VSPERF. Installation @@ -675,11 +675,15 @@ https://github.com/emmericp/MoonGen For VSPERF use, MoonGen should be cloned from here (as opposed to the previously mentioned GitHub): -git clone https://github.com/atheurer/lua-trafficgen +.. code-block:: console + + git clone https://github.com/atheurer/lua-trafficgen and use the master branch: -git checkout master +.. code-block:: console + + git checkout master VSPERF uses a particular Lua script with the MoonGen project: @@ -808,10 +812,10 @@ Example of this configuration is in conf/03_traffic.conf or conf/10_custom.conf. TRAFFICGEN_TREX_USER = '' TRAFFICGEN_TREX_BASE_DIR = '' -TRAFFICGEN_TREX_USER has to have sudo permission and passwordless access. +TRAFFICGEN_TREX_USER has to have sudo permission and password-less access. TRAFFICGEN_TREX_BASE_DIR is the place, where is stored 't-rex-64' file. -It is possible to specify the accurancy of RFC2544 Throughput measurement. +It is possible to specify the accuracy of RFC2544 Throughput measurement. Threshold below defines maximal difference between frame rate of successful (i.e. defined frameloss was reached) and unsuccessful (i.e. frameloss was exceeded) iterations. @@ -825,7 +829,7 @@ Default value of this parameter is defined in conf/03_traffic.conf as follows: 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 +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. |