[184284] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: wanted: tool for traffic generation / characteristics / monitoring
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Turner)
Thu Oct 1 14:45:11 2015
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From: Jay Turner <jkt@iix.net>
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 16:47:57 +0000
To: Pablo Lucena <plucena@coopergeneral.com>,
Matthias Flittner <matthias.flittner@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Ostinato is an open source tool billed as "a reverse Wireshark" which might
fit your needs. http://ostinato.org/
- jkt
On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 9:44 AM Pablo Lucena <plucena@coopergeneral.com>
wrote:
> Cisco has an IOS version called Pagent which allows you to craft whatever
> 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 server
> > 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 traffic
> > 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
> >
> >
>
