pppoe_perf

PPPoEPerf is a pppoe server performance test tool.

Building

mkdir -p build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

note
this program has dependency on boost log,system,program_option,random,regex you should boost first
if all that haved been install, and cmake also cannot found your boost path, you can specify the boost root with command
cmake -DBOOST_ROOT=path

Usage

pppoe_perf -h

Allow options:  
  -h [ --help ]              print help messages  
  -c [ --config ] arg        config file  
  --resend-timeout arg (=20) Specify the resend timeout  
  --discovery                Only discover the PPPoE servers  
  --ppp-stage                Use ppp-stage  
  --terminate                Terminate the session directly  
  --summary                  Show the summary stats  

• --resend-timeout
  the wait time out value after sending request packet to pppoe server
• --discover
  only to send padi packet to pppoe server to get server info, not enter the session stage
• --ppp-stage
  if you want test ppp session stage, you should use it
• --terminate
  if you use this option, your test will not enter lcp, auth stage, after received a valid session id,
  send padt actively
• --summary
  with this option you will see the performance result in a file named 'pppoe_perf.txt'

configure file

after you install pppoe_perf, you will find the configure file at the direcory /etc/pppoe_perf/conf.json

  {  
  		"interface"  : "eth0",  
  		"duration"   : 1000,  
        "padi-cnt"   : 1000,  
        "period"     : 60,  
        "log"        : "error",  
        "login-rate" : 100,  
  
        "account":{  
                "fgao_test"  :  "fgao123",  
                "zhang_test" :  "zhang_test"  
        }  
  }  

• interface
  which interface to bind
• duration
  how long the test will run
• padi-cnt
  the pppoe users you are going to simulate
• period
  user online period, after one user get an valid ip, it will keep sending udp packet to the internet, after the period seconds gone,
  the user will offline, and after double period time gone, the user will online again
• login-rate
  how many simuate users send padi request every second
• account
  the pppoe account and password

Author: Xiaopei Feng
Contact me: xpfeng@ikuai8.com
Copyright(C) 2017 ikuai8.com
PPPoEPerf software is distributed under GPL3 license and includes contributions from numberous individuals and organizations. Please see the COPYING and CONTRIBUTORS files for details.