[184277] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: wanted: tool for traffic generation / characteristics / monitoring
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Taht)
Thu Oct 1 13:18:58 2015
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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 19:18:54 +0200
From: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
To: David Ramsey <dmr@ramseyfamily.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
we use flent heavily in the bufferbloat project for creating traffic
like this and analyzing the resulting jitter, latency, and buffering.
https://www.flent.org/
On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 6:47 PM, David Ramsey <dmr@ramseyfamily.org> wrote:
> You might also want to look at Ostinato (open source s/w)
>
> --dmr
>
> David Ramsey
> Charlotte, NC
>
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Pablo Lucena <plucena@coopergeneral.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Cisco has an IOS version called Pagent which allows you to craft whateve=
r
>> traffic types you want (you can even push MPLS labels on the packets if =
you
>> want). I've used this in the past for generating client/server traffic
>> flows and measuring stats on the flows.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Matthias Flittner <
>> matthias.flittner@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Dear colleagues,
>> >
>> > Currently we are looking for a magic tool with which it is possible to
>> > generate specific (realistic) traffic patterns between client and serv=
er
>> > to analyze (monitor) traffic characteristics (jitter, delay, inter
>> > arrival times, etc.).
>> >
>> > It would be good if that wanted tool is not only able to generate
>> > different traffic patterns but also is able to collect different traff=
ic
>> > metrics over time. So that it is possible to create catchy plots. :)
>> >
>> > Any hints or links would be greatly appreciated.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance.
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > -FliTTi
>> >
>> >
>>
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