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MoonGen

MoonGen is a fully scriptable high-speed packet generator build on DPDK and LuaJIT. It can saturate a 10 GbE connection with 64 byte packets on a single CPU core while executing user-provided Lua scripts for each packet. MoonGen utilizes features of (Intel) NICs that allow to measure latencies with sub-microsecond accuracy.

MoonGen is being developed by the TU München (Chair for Network Architectures and Services) as part of the MEMPHIS Project.

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