[109731] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Stress Testing LAN/WAN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephens, Josh)
Thu Dec 4 17:53:02 2008
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 16:52:49 -0600
In-Reply-To: <85A81FA7-C323-4BB9-ABD7-325FCEBAE2B9@daork.net>
From: "Stephens, Josh" <Josh.Stephens@solarwinds.com>
To: "Nathan Ward" <nanog@daork.net>,
"nanog list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
You can download a copy of the SolarWinds toolset from our website (the
eval is free).
There's a traffic generator in there called "WAN Killer". Give it a try.
Josh
-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Ward [mailto:nanog@daork.net]=20
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 4:27 PM
To: nanog list
Subject: Re: Stress Testing LAN/WAN
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 =20
> is the WAN which is at most OC-3. The LAN would be an additional =20
> bonus if I could do that as well.
> I am familiar with tools such as those from Spirent and IXIA which =20
> are very expensive. I was wondering if someone has had to do this =20
> and can recommend some open source
> tools that would work well. I need to test a few different types of =20
> traffic, specifically trying to push traffic into various switch/=20
> router policies to make sure everything is performing as
> expected. If anyone knows of some software that works well for this =20
> I would appreciate letting me know.
iPerf.
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Nathan Ward
