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IN NO EVENT SHALL SANDVINE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES 23.\" RESULTING FROM OR ARISING OUT OF ANY USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING 24.\" WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, 25.\" PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR 26.\" SERVICES, LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER ANY 27.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 28.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 29.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF SANDVINE IS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH 30.\" DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" Author: Dave Chapeskie <dchapeskie@sandvine.com> 33.\" $FreeBSD$ 34.\" 35.Dd December 5, 2005 36.Dt NG_SOURCE 4 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm ng_source 40.Nd netgraph node for traffic generation 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.In sys/types.h 43.In netgraph/ng_source.h 44.Sh DESCRIPTION 45The 46.Nm source 47node acts as a source of packets according to the parameters set up 48using control messages and input packets. 49The 50.Nm 51node type is used primarily for testing and benchmarking. 52.Sh HOOKS 53The 54.Nm source 55node has two hooks: 56.Va input 57and 58.Va output . 59The 60.Va output 61hook must remain connected, its disconnection will shutdown the node. 62.Sh OPERATION 63The operation of the node is as follows. 64Packets received on the 65.Va input 66hook are queued internally. 67When 68.Va output 69hook is connected, 70.Nm 71node assumes that its neighbour node is of 72.Xr ng_ether 4 73node type. 74The neighbour is queried for its interface name. 75The 76.Nm 77node then uses queue of the interface for its evil purposes. 78The 79.Nm 80node also disables 81.Va autosrc 82option on neighbour 83.Xr ng_ether 4 84node. 85If interface name cannot be obtained automatically, it should 86be configured explicitly with the 87.Dv NGM_SOURCE_SETIFACE 88control message, and 89.Va autosrc 90should be turned off on 91.Xr ng_ether 4 92node manually. 93.Pp 94Once interface is configured, upon receipt of a 95.Dv NGM_SOURCE_START 96control message the node starts sending 97the previously queued packets out the 98.Va output 99hook on every clock tick as fast 100as the connected interface will take them. 101While active, on every clock tick the node checks the available space 102in the interface queue and sends that many packets out its 103.Va output 104hook. 105Once the number of packets indicated in the start message has been 106sent, or upon receipt of a 107.Dv NGM_SOURCE_STOP 108message, the node stops sending data. 109.Sh CONTROL MESSAGES 110This node type supports the generic control messages as well as the following, 111which must be sent with the 112.Dv NGM_SOURCE_COOKIE 113attached. 114.Bl -tag -width indent 115.It Dv NGM_SOURCE_GET_STATS Pq Ic getstats 116Returns a structure containing the following fields: 117.Bl -tag -width indent 118.It Va outOctets 119The number of octets/bytes sent out the 120.Va output 121hook. 122.It Va outFrames 123The number of frames/packets sent out the 124.Va output 125hook. 126.It Va queueOctets 127The number of octets queued from the 128.Va input 129hook. 130.It Va queueFrames 131The number of frames queued from the 132.Va input 133hook. 134.It Va startTime 135The time the last start message was received. 136.It Va endTime 137The time the last end message was received or 138the output packet count was reached. 139.It Va elapsedTime 140Either 141.Va endTime Li \- Va startTime 142or current time 143\- 144.Va startTime . 145.El 146.It Dv NGM_SOURCE_CLR_STATS Pq Ic clrstats 147Clears and resets the statistics returned by 148.Ic getstats 149(except 150.Va queueOctets 151and 152.Va queueFrames ) . 153.It Dv NGM_SOURCE_GETCLR_STATS Pq Ic getclrstats 154As 155.Ic getstats 156but clears the statistics at the same time. 157.It Dv NGM_SOURCE_START Pq Ic start 158This message requires a single 159.Vt uint64_t 160parameter which is the number of packets to 161send before stopping. 162Node starts sending the queued packets out the 163.Va output 164hook. 165The 166.Va output 167hook must be connected and node must have 168interface configured. 169.It Dv NGM_SOURCE_STOP Pq Ic stop 170Stops the node if it is active. 171.It Dv NGM_SOURCE_CLR_DATA Pq Ic clrdata 172Clears the packets queued from the 173.Va input 174hook. 175.It Dv NGM_SOURCE_SETIFACE Pq Ic setiface 176This message requires the name of the interface 177to be configured as an argument. 178.It Dv NGM_SOURCE_SETPPS Pq Ic setpps 179This message requires a single 180.Vt uint32_t 181parameter which puts upper limit on the amount of packets 182sent per second. 183.El 184.Sh SHUTDOWN 185This node shuts down upon receipt of a 186.Dv NGM_SHUTDOWN 187control message, when all hooks have been disconnected, or when the 188.Va output 189hook has been disconnected. 190.Sh EXAMPLES 191Attach the node to an 192.Xr ng_ether 4 193node for an interface. 194If 195.Nm ng_ether 196is 197not already loaded you will need to do so. 198For example, these commands 199load the 200.Nm ng_ether 201module and attach the 202.Va output 203hook of a new 204.Nm source 205node to 206.Va orphans 207hook of the 208.Li bge0: 209.Nm ng_ether 210node. 211.Bd -literal -offset indent 212kldload ng_ether 213ngctl mkpeer bge0: source orphans output 214.Ed 215.Pp 216At this point the new node can be referred to as 217.Dq Li bge0:orphans . 218The 219node can be given its own name like this: 220.Pp 221.Dl "ngctl name bge0:orphans src0" 222.Pp 223After which it can be referred to as 224.Dq Li src0: . 225.Pp 226Once created, packets need to be sent to the node, the TCL net package 227can be used to generate these packets: 228.Pp 229[Sandvine specific TCL code example omitted] 230.Pp 231To feed the output of the above TCL script to the 232.Nm source 233node's 234.Va input 235hook via 236.Xr nghook 8 : 237.Pp 238.Dl "tcl genPacket | nghook bge0:orphans input" 239.Pp 240To check that the node has queued these packets you can get the node 241statistics: 242.Bd -literal -offset indent 243ngctl msg bge0:orphans getstats 244Args: { queueOctets=64 queueFrames=1 } 245.Ed 246.Pp 247Send as many packets as required out the 248.Va output 249hook: 250.Pp 251.Dl "ngctl msg bge0:orphans start 16" 252.Pp 253Either wait for them to be sent (periodically fetching stats if desired) 254or send the stop message: 255.Pp 256.Dl "ngctl msg bge0:orphans stop" 257.Pp 258Check the statistics (here we use 259.Ic getclrstats 260to also clear the statistics): 261.Bd -literal -offset indent 262ngctl msg bge0:orphans getclrstats 263Args: { outOctets=1024 outFrames=16 queueOctets=64 queueFrames=1 264startTime={ tv_sec=1035305880 tv_usec=758036 } endTime={ tv_sec=1035305880 265tv_usec=759041 } elapsedTime={ tv_usec=1005 } } 266.Ed 267.Pp 268The times are from 269.Vt "struct timeval" Ns s , 270the 271.Va tv_sec 272field is seconds since 273the Epoch and can be converted into a date string via TCL's [clock 274format] or via the 275.Xr date 1 276command: 277.Bd -literal -offset indent 278date -r 1035305880 279Tue Oct 22 12:58:00 EDT 2002 280.Ed 281.Sh SEE ALSO 282.Xr netgraph 4 , 283.Xr ng_echo 4 , 284.Xr ng_hole 4 , 285.Xr ng_tee 4 , 286.Xr ngctl 8 , 287.Xr nghook 8 288.Sh HISTORY 289The 290.Nm 291node type was implemented in 292.Fx 4.8 . 293.Sh AUTHORS 294.An Dave Chapeskie Aq dchapeskie@SANDVINE.com 295