[118924] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Speed Testing and Throughput testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Azher Mughal)
Mon Nov 2 18:09:54 2009
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:09:09 -0800
From: Azher Mughal <azher@hep.caltech.edu>
To: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
In-Reply-To: <598DF164-D082-4DBA-8FBE-E6E10330A35B@daork.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
perfsonar livecd offers npad service that remote hosts can connect and
see the performance and results.
http://www.internet2.edu/performance/toolkit/index.html
TcpOptimizer helps tunning the tcp/ip for windows systems.
http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php
nuttcp is good to generate packets/sec.
-Azher
Nathan Ward wrote:
> On 3/11/2009, at 10:56 AM, Mark Urbach wrote:
>
>> Anyone have a good solution to get "accurate" speed results when
>> testing at 10/100/1000 Ethernet speeds?
>
> If you want accuracy, you want to buy a packet generator/router tester
> unit.
>
> I just built a tool for a customer (a last-mile network provider) that
> runs a series of iperf tests over several days, and generates a report.
> iperf works well enough, but it seems to be much better when driven by
> humans, vs. driven by scripts.
>
> I'm not aware of any free tools that do just ethernet frames.
>
>> Do you have a server/software that customer can test too?
>
> Not sure what you're after here - do you want to host your own
> speedtest.net-like service so your customers can self-test their
> access links? Does this mean much, or should they be testing against a
> server outside your network?Also, if you host your own service and
> you're talking about 10/100/1000mbit connections, you might want to
> put something in place that prevents several people testing at once.
>
> --
> Nathan Ward
>
>
-Azher
