[109728] in North American Network Operators' Group
Stress Testing LAN/WAN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Feeny)
Thu Dec 4 17:25:25 2008
From: Brian Feeny <bfeeny@mac.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:23:36 -0500
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
I have the need to stress test a LAN and WAN. The primary concern is
the WAN which is at most OC-3. The LAN would be an additional bonus
if I could do that as well.
I am familiar with tools such as those from Spirent and IXIA which are
very expensive. I was wondering if someone has had to do this and can
recommend some open source
tools that would work well. I need to test a few different types of
traffic, specifically trying to push traffic into various switch/
router policies to make sure everything is performing as
expected. If anyone knows of some software that works well for this I
would appreciate letting me know.
Thanks,
Brian
