[165004] in North American Network Operators' Group
Recommendations for dynamic imix traffic generators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Lixfeld)
Thu Aug 15 12:46:26 2013
From: Jason Lixfeld <jason@lixfeld.ca>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 12:46:07 -0400
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hi folks,
I'm trying to put together a test bench to soak some CPE equipment with =
an imix of eyeball traffic. I'm wondering if anyone has any =
recommendations on open-source platforms that might be able to =
accomplish this.
I'd like to simulate traffic conditions that various tiers of Internet =
users might create from behind these CPEs - Casual user, business user, =
gamer, heavy users, netflix client, Apple TV client, a combination of =
any of the aforementioned, etc.
In a perfect world, I'd love for these traffic patterns to be dynamic; =
various pps/bps/fps/nat cps rates, various intervals of each and =
durations of each instead of just continually puking out the same set of =
packets in an endless loop.
I think it would be important for this traffic generator to be =
intelligent enough to determine whether or not the tests it's performing =
are successful or not; that is, be cognizant of errors in the tests that =
would translate into what a user would perceive to be a broken web page =
or a slow loading web page or a video freezing or a game to lock up, all =
of which might be attributed to a timeout on a DNS lookup or packet-loss =
or a bad NAT stack, etc.
If anyone has any ideas or experiences they can share on this type of =
setup, I'd love some feedback or advice.
icir.org has a list of tools which I'm making my way through as well. =
Not sure what is useful for what it I'm trying to do, but I digress.
Thanks in advance.=
