Hardware Setup

Network Toplogy

Topology

The setup consists of three nodes:

• Load generator (LoadGen): runs MoonGen as traffic generator, creates traffic for the DuT and receives the traffic from the DuT
• Device under test (DuT): forwards the traffic received from the LoadGen between its interfaces, through packet processing applications either on bare-metal, container, or virtual-machines.
• Timestamper (Timer): Receives a copy of every packet exchanged between LoadGen and DuT for timestamping which is done in hardware using the capabilities of the E810 NIC

DuT and LoadGen are directly connected via optical fibers. The Timer is connected via passive optical taps to mirror both fibers between DuT and LoadGen. The passive optical taps impact on latency is neglectible.

All presented Scripts contain different names for the interfaces, those need to be adapted to be run-able on other infrastructure as the interface name is hardware-dependend.

Hardware

The nodes are equipped in the following way:

Scenario 1

Scenario 2