[145063] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: flow generating tool
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Exley)
Mon Sep 26 15:46:54 2011
From: Jonathon Exley <Jonathon.Exley@kordia.co.nz>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:45:24 +1300
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The test plan you use depends upon what you want to test - raw pps throughp=
ut, route convergence time, qos performance, etc.
We use Exfo (http://www.exfo.com) testers working to a mac-swap loopback fo=
r commissioning testing of Ethernet access circuits, looking at the usual l=
oss/throughput/latency/jitter metrics and burst size.
When checking out new equipment in the lab we also use scapy scripts (http:=
//www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/) to look at things like Ethertype and L2CP=
transparency.
Jonathon=20
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Leschnik [mailto:leschnik@gmail.com]=20
Sent: Tuesday, 27 September 2011 3:02 a.m.
To: jiaruchen@gmail.com
Cc: George Jones; nanog@nanog.org; Naiden Dimitrov
Subject: Re: flow generating tool
Does anyone follow a network performance testing methodology, using hardwar=
e from companies like ixia/spirent?
I know that basic testing is typically done for validation of configs, but =
i assume other issues would make themselves apparent when pushed to these h=
igher loads.
thoughts/comments?
Thanks
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