[109737] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Stress Testing LAN/WAN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Meek)
Thu Dec 4 19:29:20 2008
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 19:29:05 -0500
From: "Jon Meek" <meekjt@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <B06CEDC9-FFD1-45D0-A9E0-AB2A20FF8E8F@kanren.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
We use iperf running off of a bootable Linux CD
with a 2.4 Kernel and can push 960 to 980 Mbps
with no drops or errors on any pair of PCs with
Gig interfaces we have tried so far.
We usually 10 TCP streams, or tune the TCP stack
and use a single stream.
We also capture the traffic on both sides, run a
standard analysis, and plot the send and receive
per-second utilization and the re-transmit rate
from the send side.
Jon
