[145038] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: flow generating tool
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jiaruchen@gmail.com)
Mon Sep 26 09:44:30 2011
To: "Erik Bais" <ebais@a2b-internet.com>,
"'Naiden Dimitrov'" <naiden.dimitrov@maxtelecom.bg>,
"'George Jones'" <gmj@cert.org>
From: jiaruchen@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:36:46 +0000
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: jiaruchen@gmail.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Iperf(linux) and jperf(windows) does generate traffic flows. You simply set up sender/receiver and it'll generate traffic load. It can generate 10gig line rate unicast flows but multicast replication is limited because it is software based.
Iperf/jperf however, is not as flexible or anywhere as feature rich and powerful as some of the other hardware solutions as mentioned earlier - ex: ixia, spirent etc.
-Jia
------Original Message------
From: Erik Bais
To: 'Naiden Dimitrov'
To: 'George Jones'
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: flow generating tool
Sent: Sep 26, 2011 9:03 AM
Perhaps not a tool as in software, but clearly something that you might want
to have a look at :
Ixia and Spirent devices ... Those are mostly used for applications like
generating different kind of traffic.
Erik Bais
