Overview… streams, traffic generation
Streams are the basic mechanism for generating outgoing traffic to be transmitted on the test ports. Each port supports multiple stream definitions which can be configured independently of each other.
Streams are defined under their own “Streams” tab in the content area of the XenaManager, which is also where you control whether traffic generation is on..
Traffic generation is explicitly started and stopped for each port:
Once traffic is started, all the enabled streams contribute packets to the port.
A stream definition consists of two main parts: the transmission profile which specifies how the packets should be spaced in time, and the packet content which specifies the actual data bytes comprising each packet.
Transmission profile:
Enabling, suppressing and capping
Packet content: