Thank you Keith -Sara On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 4:19 PM Wiles, Keith <[email protected]> wrote:
> The way Pktgen works is it loads the packets into memory until it fills up > the number of buffers allocated, which I think is 8192 buffers. If you pcap > file is more then that they are ignored. > > Pktgen has different modes for the transmitting packets, the PCAP is > loaded and assign to a port, but it doe not mean they will be sent. The > default mode is single packet mode and you have to enable PCAP file to be > sent using the enable <portlist> pcap command. Then you have to do a start > <portlist> on that port to send the pcap files. Each mode has its own set > of buffers it can send, so you can switch to modes and be able to reenable > pcap mode on a port to send the pcap buffers again. > > The pcap data loaded into memory will be sent over and over if you send > more than the number of pcap packets you loaded. The way DPDK works it > possible they will be send out of order :-( > > > On Jul 10, 2019, at 8:12 AM, Sara Gittlin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hi all > > I'm running the pkgen w pcap file , -s P:http.pcap > > but i dont see any pkts in the receive side > > Is pktgen automatically transmits the pcap after startup ? or i have to > > manually run it from the cli ? > > is it possible to run this pcap many times? > > Thank you > > -Sara > > Regards, > Keith > >
