kakapo is a test suite for BGP performance.
The main component is kakapo-core, which provides the executalble binary 'kakapo'. The simplest invocation of kakapo-core is of the form:
kakapo 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.1
Or, as the executable reports for usage:
USAGE: kakapo [,] [,] [[,] note the minimum number of peers is two, of which the first is a listener and all others are senders many options are controlled via environment variables like SLEEP, etc...
See the README in core/ for more information about kakapo core
kakapo-relay is a benchmark reference 'BGP speaker' for kakapo. It does nothing bar accept BGP sessions and relay update streams unchanged between peers.
Use it to calibrate the test environment and evaluate whether kakapo-core or the hardware may be a material performance constraint.