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Description

We should update "about" section of README file to match the description in SOSP paper.

Background

ICMP messages are used by network devices, including routers, to send error messages and operational information indicating success or failure when communicating with another IP address. Examples include errors indicating when a requested service is not available or when a host or router could not be reached. We've

Bug Report

Current Behavior
If you forget to start the manager with jumbo frame support (-j), then speed tester will crash if you tell it to load a PCAP trace that contains jumbo frames.

Expected behavior/code
Rather than segfault, we should report an error if the size of a packet is larger than the mbuf size.

Steps to reproduce
Start the manager as normal, run speed

This is an optimization to reduce the time it takes to build/deploy YAStack.

Compilation of YAStack can be optimized by pre-compiling source code that does not depend on DPDK. This can help build the image faster since now only DPDK and dependent code will have to be compiled.