Open AccessBB-Gen: A Packet Crafter for Data Plane Evaluation
Author(s) -
Fabricio E Rodriguez Cesen,
P. Gyanesh Kumar Patra,
Christian Esteve Rothenberg
Publication year - 2018
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.5753/sbrc_estendido.2018.14174
Subject(s) - computer science , network packet , latency (audio) , throughput , computer network , forwarding plane , distributed computing , wireless , operating system , telecommunications
With the advent of research on fast path packet processing, trafc generator tools witnessed many entrants with features ranging from supporting list of protocols, analyzing network trafc to measuring throughput and latency of packets. While approaching towards feature completeness, the tools are becoming more complex every time making it difcult to port, manage, and use. BBGen with a sole focus on simplicity complements other trafc generators instead of trying to replace them. BB-Gen is a simple CLI-based packet crafter to generate packet ows formatted as PCAP les. The tool supports different standard protocols and creates the necessary traces for network function conguration and testing. It allows creating PCAPs for worst and best case scenarios with all unique ows or following ow distributions published elsewhere. In this demo, we feature BB-Gen as used by the MACSAD development team to test P4-based software switch pipelines.