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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>
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Subject: in-kernel traffic generator?
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<<On Wed, 09 Oct 2002 18:18:41 -0700, Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU> said:

> anyone know of an in-kernel traffic generator similar to UDPgen 
> (http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/sebastian.zander/private/udpgen/) 
> for Linux? Userland traffic generators have high overheads with small 
> packets at Gigabit speeds.

I wrote one a long time ago for John Wroclawski (back when 100 Mbit/s
was still considered a high speed).  I don't think I have the source
any more, and even if I did it would require a lot of hacking to make
it work (it was fairly intimate with the IP stack in 2.2.5).

-GAWollman


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