[121478] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 10Gbps Traffic Test Systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Ward)
Wed Jan 20 18:55:00 2010
From: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
In-Reply-To: <D8BE9D28-C2BD-40B0-9B09-18C0899FADF0@kanren.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:54:11 +1300
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I have used Ixia, Spirent AX/4000, Spirent Testcenter and Spirent =
Smartbits for 1-10GE testing, they've all been able to do the things you =
ask for - they are quite basic features and any 10GE "router tester" =
unit will do what you want.
In addition, you should demand much higher than 10Kpps, you should be =
able to fit roughly 120Mpps of TCP SYN packets in to a 10GE ethernet =
pipe.
On 21/01/2010, at 11:04 AM, Brad Fleming wrote:
> I am in the market for 10Gbps traffic testers.
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> Here are some of the things I'd like to have:
> 1) Mixed packet sizes
> 2) Ramp TCP sessions up/down quickly
> 3) Many source and destination IPs
> 4) Ability to ramp traffic up and down
> 5) Simulate targeted SYN floods
> 6) 10,000+ packets per second
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> We'll use these devices to test throughput and resource utilization on =
routers and firewalls/security systems. We'll also test and prove =
candidate QoS configurations (ie: DSCP41 still works well even when =
DSCP11 is saturating links).
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> The catch is that I work for a charitable, non-profit with limited =
resources. I understand you can't have steak on a sardine budget; I'm =
just trying to find suggestions on a testing platform for "thrifty" =
customers! We do not have any existing testing systems other than iPerf =
on a Mac Mini.
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> Any suggestions, either on-list or off, are welcome and appreciated.
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> Brad Fleming
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