On 30 Nov 2021, at 16:00, David Marchand wrote:
> net_pcap is not always available in DPDK (like, in a dev
> environment when you forgot to install the libpcap-devel).
> On the other hand, OVS already has its own way to inject packets into a
> bridge. Let's make use of it.
>
> This solution is slower than net/pcap DPDK, so lower the number of
> expected packets so that it runs in OVS_CTL_TIMEOUT seconds.
>
> While at it, convert "known" packets from pcap to scapy so that the
> injected packets can be updated without having to read/write a pcap file.
>
> Note: this change also (avoids/) fixes a python exception in PcapWriter
> with scapy 2.4.3 that comes from EPEL.
>
> Suggested-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maxim...@ovn.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com>
> ---
> Changes since v2:
> - updated documentation,
> - cleaned tests/automake.mk,
> - fixed shebang in python script,
> - added missing check for scapy availability,
>
> Changes since v1:
> - renamed generator script,
> - decreased packet count for fuzzy test,
> - simplified wait expression for packet count,
Changes look good to me!
Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echau...@redhat.com>
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