Our benchmarking script for the MoonGen packet generator loads the forwarder example application with full bidirectional load at 20 Gbit/s with 64 byte packets (29.76 Mpps). The forwarder then increments one byte in the packet to ensure that the packet is loaded all the way into the L1 cache. Correct functionality of the forwarder is also tested by the script by validating sequence numbers. A main

