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Intro

Realistic Traffic Generator

TRex is an open source, low cost, stateful and stateless traffic generator fuelled by DPDK. It generates L3-7 traffic and provides in one tool capabilities provided by commercial tools.

TRex Stateless functionality includes support for multiple streams, the ability to change any packet field and provides per stream/group statistics, latency and jitter.

Advanced Stateful functionality includes support for emulating L7 traffic with fully-featured scalable TCP/UDP support.

TRex Emulation functionality includes client side protocols i.e ARP, IPv6, ND, MLD, IGMP, ICMP, DOT1X, DCHPv4, DHCPv6, DNS in order to simulate a scale of clients and servers.

TRex can scale up to 200Gb/sec with one server.