On 9 May 2017 at 14:56, Wiles, Keith <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Keith!

> The range command can allow you to adjust the type field and then send those 
> in a burst. The problem is pktgen was designed to send packets at a high rate 
> if needed and that means setting up the packets before hand. The number of 
> packets being able to be setup before hand is 8192. The random command can 
> adjust the ether type randomly for each packet with a performance hit. Maybe 
> one of these would help.

So it sounds like the range command is what I want then, if I can
systematically adjust the EtherType field (e.g. I can explicitly say
start at 0x0 and run to 0xFFFF) just with the caveat that I have to
send a burst of packet for each loop iteration?

If that is the case I don't mind, it will still get the job done of
testing every Ethertype through a DUT. Any chance I can lower the
burst size on the CLI to 64 packets for example to speed things up?

> Also I am more then willing to take patches :-)

Sure, I didn't want to spend hours testing to find out that I can't do
what I wanted to do which is why I asked here.

Sounds like it can be done so I'll have a poke around with the code
and see what I can do.

Thanks for your help it is greatly appreciated,
James.

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