[109729] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Stress Testing LAN/WAN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Ward)
Thu Dec 4 17:27:34 2008
From: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
To: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <5D4CC796-6160-4275-A1EC-F524F8EF9AC4@mac.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 11:26:50 +1300
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On 5/12/2008, at 11:23 AM, Brian Feeny wrote:
>
> 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.
iPerf.
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Nathan Ward
