BSD Portsnet/pkt-gen g2026.08.08 FreeBSD
Packet sink/source and bandwidth/delay emulator using the netmap API
- System
- FreeBSD
- Repository
- FreeBSD ports
- Maintainer
- [email protected]
- Last update
- Commit
eeefa91930- License
- BSD2CLAUSE
- Categories
- net
- Package size
- 64.0 KiB, 143.1 KiB installed
Description
Packet sink/source (pkt-gen) and link emulator (tlem) using the netmap API useful for performance testing networks. This is the upstream version of the program by the same name that lives in /usr/src/tools/tools/netmap, maintained by Luigi Rizzo.
In the other systems
| System | Port | Version |
|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD | net/pkt-gen | g2026.08.08 |
| HardenedBSD | net/pkt-gen | g2026.08.08 |
| GhostBSD | net/pkt-gen | g2025.10.08 |
Install
Binary package:
pkg install pkt-genFrom the ports tree:
cd /usr/ports/net/pkt-gen/ && make install cleanTo depend on this port in another port's Makefile:
RUN_DEPENDS= pkt-gen>0:net/pkt-genPackages
The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.
| Repository | aarch64 | amd64 | armv6 | armv7 | i386 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD:14:latest | g2026.08.08 | g2026.08.08 | g2022.02.10 | g2024.09.16 | g2026.08.08 |
| FreeBSD:14:quarterly | g2026.08.08 | g2026.08.08 | n/a | g2024.09.16 | g2026.08.08 |
| FreeBSD:15:latest | g2026.08.08 | g2026.08.08 | n/a | g2024.09.16 | g2024.09.16 |
| FreeBSD:15:quarterly | g2026.08.08 | g2026.08.08 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| FreeBSD:16:latest | g2026.08.08 | g2026.08.08 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| FreeBSD:16:quarterly | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Dependencies
The Makefile names none itself; they come from USES and USE_*.
The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.
Build dependencies 3
No port depends on this one.
Configuration
Options name: net_pkt-gen
| Option | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PCAP | on | Support loading packets from pcap file |
- USES
- gmake
- Service scripts
- none
Files
distinfo 1
| File | Size | SHA256 |
|---|---|---|
| luigirizzo-netmap-g2026.08.08-389daea_GH0.tar.gz | 774116 | e102c0a56ccd6d78211d2a542bac979fd3459956c9db3592f175ea3f79da14b1 |