netdev - Re: What's the right way to use a *large* number of source addresses?

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Date:	Fri, 23 May 2014 15:39:55 -0700
From:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
To:	Niels Möller <nisse@...thpole.se>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Jonas Bonn <jonas@...thpole.se>
Subject: Re: What's the right way to use a *large* number of source addresses?

On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 2:38 AM, Niels Möller <nisse@...thpole.se> wrote:
> Hi,
....
>
> So now I'm trying to figure out what's the Right Way to enable traffic
> generations with a large number of source addresses, to possibly retire
> the proprietary kernel module. I see a couple of different approaches:
>
>

Isn't pktgen is what you are looking for? It provides src_min and src_max
to specify the range of source IPv4 addresses. But it does't understand
TCP, only UDP.
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