dev Digest, Vol 440, Issue 47

[Benoit Ganne (bganne)]

> I would like to convert our in-house tool into a high performance traffic
> generator and it is written in Python.
> Is it possible to use any of the user space TCP stack by compiling into
> shared libraries and access it via Python using ctypes?
> Could you please let me know any viable solution to make use of user space
> TCP stack compatible with Python?

If you're looking for a high-performance L3-L7 traffic generator based on DPDK that you can automate with python, I'd recommend TRex: https://trex-tgn.cisco.com/
We use it extensively in fd.io and in other projects.

Best
ben