Pktgen, (Packet Gen-erator) is a software based traffic generator powered by the DPDK fast packet processing framework. Some of the features of Pktgen are: ? It is capable of generating 10Gbit wire rate traffic with 64 byte frames. ? It can act as a transmitter or receiver at line rate. ? It has a runtime environment to configure, and start and stop traffic flows. ? It can display real time metrics for a number of ports. ? It can generate packets in sequence by iterating source or destination MAC, IP addresses or ports. ? It can handle packets with UDP, TCP, ARP, ICMP, GRE, MPLS and Queue-in-Queue. ? It can be controlled remotely over a TCP connection. ? It is configurable via Lua and can run command scripts to set up repeatable test cases. ? The software is fully available under a BSD licence.