Vulcan Port

This module contains the Vulcan port commands.

The Xena L47 test execution engine has seven states: off, prepare, prepare_rdy, prerun, prerun_rdy, running and stopped. Traffic is generated in the prerun and running states only, and configuration of parameters is only valid in state off except for a few runtime options. Port traffic commands can be given with P4_TRAFFIC and port state queried by P4_STATE.

  • off - default state. Entered from stopped or prepare on OFF command. This is the only state that allows configuration commands. p_reset is also considered a configuration command. Upon entering off state, some internal ‘’house cleaning’’’ is done. For example: freeing TCP Connections, clearing test specific counters etc.

  • prepare - this state is entered from state off on PREPARE command. Here internal data structures relevant for the test configuration are created.

  • prepare_rdy - entered automatically after activities in prepare have completed successfully.

  • prepare_fail - entered automatically from prepare, if an error occurs. An error could for example be failure to load a configured replay file.

  • prerun - entered from prepare_ready on PRERUN command. If enabled, this is where ARP and NDP requests are sent.

  • prerun_rdy - entered automatically after activities in prerun have completed.

  • running - entered either from prepare_ready or prerun_ready on ON command. This is where TCP connections are established, payload is generated and connections are closed again.

  • stopping - entered from running, prerun_ready or prerun on STOP command. Stops Rx/Tx traffic. In the stopping state, post-test data are calculated and captured packets are saved to files.

  • stopped - entered automatically after activities in stopping.