[49160] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Testing Bandwidth performance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Wed Jun 26 01:08:34 2002
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 01:02:39 -0400
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net>
To: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@fugawi.net>
Cc: Wojtek Zlobicki <wojtekz@idirect.com>,
Alan Sato <asato@altrio.net>, nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20020626010141.014dd9a0@ns1.outland.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I think they are talking about generating an OC3s worth
of traffic. while you could fill it all up w/ ntp packets
as one method, I do not beleive it will create the desired result.
but yes, if you are wanting to measure
latency across your network or a circuit, ntp when properly
synchronized can be quite a useful tool.
- jared
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 01:02:29AM -0400, Martin Hannigan wrote:
>
> At 11:30 PM 6/25/2002 -0400, Wojtek Zlobicki wrote:
>
> >I've found IPERF to work quite well. TTCP is also great. For a commercial
> >solution,
> >you may want to look for products from companies such as IXIA.
>
>
> Whatever happened to using NTP between sites? Works well if you have
> clocks at each site. Sorta works on strat 1/2 no clock.
>
>
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