CONFIG_NET_PKTGEN: Packet Generator (USE WITH CAUTION)

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_NET_PKTGEN:

• prompt: Packet Generator (USE WITH CAUTION)
• type: tristate
• depends on: CONFIG_INET && CONFIG_PROC_FS
• defined in net/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 2.5.47–2.5.75, 2.6.0–2.6.39, 3.0–3.19, 4.0–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0–6.12
• modules built: pktgen

Help text

This module will inject preconfigured packets, at a configurable rate, out of a given interface. It is used for network interface stress testing and performance analysis. If you don't understand what was just said, you don't need it: say N.

Documentation on how to use the packet generator can be found at Documentation/networking/pktgen.rst.

To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be called pktgen.

Hardware

LKDDb

Raw data from LKDDb:

• lkddb module pktgen CONFIG_NET_PKTGEN : net/Kconfig : "Packet Generator (USE WITH CAUTION)" # in 2.5.47–2.5.75, 2.6.0–2.6.39, 3.0–3.19, 4.0–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0–6.12

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This page is automaticly generated with free (libre, open) software lkddb(see lkddb-sources).

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• Linux Kernel Driver DataBase (LKDDb)

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