[191969] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 10G tester recommendations?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryan Holloway)
Wed Oct 5 08:54:04 2016
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To: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
From: Bryan Holloway <bryan@shout.net>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 07:54:00 -0500
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Mainly RFC2544 and physical media. QoS could be handy, but it's not as
important as proving that the circuit is meeting our expectations from
the carrier(s).
On 10/4/16 1:12 PM, Saku Ytti wrote:
> On 3 October 2016 at 22:09, Bryan Holloway <bryan@shout.net> wrote:
>> We're in the market for a hand-held 10G ethernet tester, and I was curious
>> if the NANOG community had any recommendations or experiences they would be
>> willing to share, negative or positive.
>
> What are you looking to test? Are you interested in having the kit
> emulate many devices? Do you want to be able to test QoS
> realistically? Do you care about one-way latency accurately?
> Or is this more about proving the physical media is fine?
>