testpmd

Usage

Deploy the yaml

kubectl create namespace testpmd
kubectl apply -f test.yaml

Start testpmd (4-6 being the CPU range on which to run testpmd)

kubectl -n testpmd exec -it testpmd memif-testpmd 4-6

The annotation in the yaml specification of the pod specifies that packets to the PodIP destined to ports between 4444 and 20000 for both TCP and UDP will be sent to the memif, and end up in testpmd.

  annotations:
    "cni.projectcalico.org/vppExtraMemifPorts": "tcp:4444-20000,udp:4444-20000"

Testpmd is started in 5tuple swap mode, meaning it will mirror all the packets it receives. In order to test it, either send a single TCP packet, e.g. curl http://<testPmdPodIP>:4444 from another container or a cluster node.

Alternatively you can also use a traffic generator like trex (see the corresponding yaml under ../trex)