Nov 01 2019 73 mins 1
TRex is an open source traffic generator backed by Cisco. Joining us on Heavy Networking today is Hanoch Haim, Principal Engineer with Cisco, and the lead developer on the TRex project. This is not a sponsored show. I heard about TRex from an audience member. I thought it was a really interesting open source alternative to commercial traffic generators that cost six figures. I reached out to Hanoch, and he was kind enough to join me for this episode to talk about TRex. We discuss: * How TRex works * Use cases for traffic generation in testing * How to deploy TRex * Performance limits * Why Cisco put this project into open source instead of selling it * More Show Links: TRex – Cisco Systems TRex Docs TRex on GitHub TRex Forum – Google Groups PQ Show 85: FD.IO & VPP Open Virtual Switch – Packet Pushers TRex: An Open Source Traffic Generator – YouTube TRex as a stateful traffic generator – Cisco Presentation TRex traffic generator from Userspace 2015 in Berlin – Slideshare Adding stateless support to TRex – Slideshare Adding stateless support to TRex (video from DPDK Project) – YouTube
