On 15.06.2016 17:50, Jay Rolette wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 4:43 AM, Yerden Zhumabekov <e_zhumabekov at sts.kz> > wrote: > >> Hello everybody, >> >> DPDK already got a number of PMDs for various eth devices, it even has PMD >> emulations for backends such as pcap, sw rings etc. >> >> I've been thinking about the idea of having PMD which would generate mbufs >> on the fly in some randomized fashion. This would serve goals like, for >> example: >> >> 1) running tests for applications with network processing capabilities >> without additional software packet generators; >> 2) making performance measurements with no hw inteference; >> 3) ability to run without root privileges, --no-pci, --no-huge, for CI >> build, so on. >> >> Maybe there's no such need, and these goals may be achieved by other means >> and this idea is flawed? Any thoughts? >> > Are you thinking of something along the lines of what BreakingPoint (now > part of Ixia) does, but as an open source software tool? >
More dreaming than thinking though :) Live flows generation, malware, attacks simulation etc is way out of scope of PMD dev, I guess.