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RE: Ethernet performance tests

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Exley)
Thu Oct 28 17:16:53 2010

From: Jonathon Exley <Jonathon.Exley@kordia.co.nz>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:16:40 +1300
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimntHw5sHrbcfcbZvyuwAUeXEt0URj-in+3+Z6H@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

How smooth is the Ixchariot data stream? When Chariot was a NetIQ product i=
t seemed to generate regular spikes as the algorithm tried to correct the t=
otal throughput over a time interval.
It's not a problem for slow data rates but when testing near the limit of a=
 circuit's capacity the spikes could sometimes overflow the buffers of Ethe=
rnet media converters and give false results.

Jonathon=20

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefano Gridelli [mailto:sgridelli@gmail.com]=20
Sent: Friday, 29 October 2010 1:08 a.m.
To: Diogo Montagner; Tim Jackson; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Ethernet performance tests

Hi Diogo

We use ixchariot endpoints installed on linux laptops to test sites for voi=
ce readiness. Ixchariot calculates for you the MOS score and, depending fro=
m the NIC, can also push close to 1 Gig of traffic. For larger bandwidth te=
sts (I believe 6-7 Gig) and fast re-route testing (ms failover) we use ixia=
 hardware.

Ciao


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