[147811] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Windows UDP packet generator software?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Foster)
Thu Dec 22 15:17:28 2011
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:16:28 +1300
From: Mark Foster <blakjak@blakjak.net>
To: Sean Harlow <sean@seanharlow.info>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <0B377425-F833-4914-BFCC-C2364A4F07BF@seanharlow.info>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I can imagine plenty of circumstances where someone might want
by-protocol indications of service, rather than the relatively basic
link-test that ICMP provides.
Another vote for iperf....
Mark.
On 23/12/11 08:36, Sean Harlow wrote:
> iperf might be able to do what you need and there are Windows builds available, but I'm not sure if it has a mode where it's not flooding the network trying to test maximum speed. Is there a reason that standard ICMP pings aren't appropriate if you just want packet loss info? Obviously every platform worth using has ping built in.
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> Sean Harlow
> sean@seanharlow.info
>
> On Dec 22, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Jay Nakamura wrote:
>
>> The goal of what I am doing is to test some network convergence impact
>> in a lab with two PCs with windows (Can't run Linux, it would be
>> easier if I could) and switches and/or routers in between.
>>
>> So, I thought there must be some simple utility out there that can
>> just start spewing out UDP packets to the other side at a certain time
>> interval and I can look at packet loss via what arrives on the other
>> side with wireshark on the PC.
>>
>> I found hping but it seems to be outdated and I can't get it to work
>> on my windows boxes.
>>
>> Anyone have any suggestions?
>>
>
