EtherateMT

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What is it

Etherate is a Linux CLI application for testing layer 2 Ethernet and MPLS

connectivity. It can generate various Ethernet and MPLS frames for testing

different devices such as switches/routers/firewalls etc, to test

traffic parsing/matching/filtering/forwarding.

Etherate is not an effective load tester, it is not designed for high

performance. It is designed for testing many traffic parsing scenarios.

EtherateMT is a multi-threaded ("MT") load generator (not "traffic" generator)

and load sinker. EtherateMT simply sends random "junk" frames (or the user may

load a custom frame from file) as fast as it can. The user can run the

application in transmit or received mode, choose the number of worker threads

and which method for transmission/receive within the Kernel to use (e.g.

`sendto()` or `sendmsg()` and `PACKET_MMAP` etc.).

The code is still in beta so it's a bit buggy but mostly works.

FAQ and Troubleshooting

See the Wiki page: https://github.com/jwbensley/EtherateMT/wiki/FAQ-&-Troubleshooting