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Shouldn't this link directly to GitHub instead? (https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch)

Also, just in case the author of Snabb Switch is reading this, it would be really helpful to provide a short example program of how to use this. A brief look over the documentation didn't show anything. (It's possibly I just missed it. In which case it would be great if you linked to it in the README or otherwise made it prominent).

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loadgen is a good first example program. That is a load generator that can transmit an arbitrarily large amount of traffic (hundreds of Gbps) from a trace file using a negligible amount of CPU. This is practical and being used every day.

https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch/tree/master/src/desig...

Here is the driver hack that makes it possible: https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch/blob/master/src/apps/...