[147812] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Windows UDP packet generator software?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Blunk)
Thu Dec 22 15:22:05 2011
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:20:56 -0500
From: Larry Blunk <ljb@merit.edu>
To: 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
On 12/22/2011 02:36 PM, 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.
> ----------
> Sean Harlow
> sean@seanharlow.info
In UDP mode, iperf sends at 1 Mbps by default. You change
the rate with the -b flag. There's an iperf-2.0.5-cygwin
build floating around for Windows.
