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pktgen
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   Traffic generator using DPDK pktgen (pktgen-dpdk).

   Launches pktgen-dpdk with a Lua script to generate traffic at a given packet
   size for GEN_TIME seconds. Collects throughput (RESULT-THROUGHPUT) and TX rate
   (RESULT-TX) in Mbps.

   Variables:
     GEN_CPU    - Number of CPU cores to use (default: 8)
     SND_NIC    - NIC index for sending (default: 0)
     GEN_TIME   - Duration of the test in seconds (default: 5)
     GEN_LENGTH - Packet size in bytes (default: 512)

   Usage:
     %import@client pktgen GEN_LENGTH=64 GEN_TIME=10