packet generator

[Julian Elischer]

yes ther e is a netgraph source

ng_source from memory..


Andrew Gallatin wrote:

>Does anybody have a free, in-kernel tool to generate packets quicky
>and send them out a particular etherent interface on FreeBSD?
>Something similar to pktgen on linux?
>
>I'm trying to excersize just the send-side of programmable firmware
>based NIC.  The recieve side of the NIC firmware is not yet written,
>but I want to get started tuning and shaking the bugs out of the send
>side while the firmware author does the recieve path.  The packets
>just get dropped on the floor by the NIC, so its a good way to test
>the interface..
>
>I can add an arp entry and ping -l HUGEVAL, but that only generates 205K
>pkts/sec (where *think* I see 1.1 million pkts/sec with pktgen on
>linux, but I'm not sure I trust it).
>
>Thanks,
>
>Drew
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