[49168] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Testing Bandwidth performance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniska Tomas)
Wed Jun 26 05:09:11 2002
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 11:07:35 +0200
From: "Daniska Tomas" <tomas@tronet.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
a few months ago i was playing with a box from anritsu, they can do =
several gbps for very interesting price
well yes - i could feel on the box they still are an startup - but they =
seemed very open
as far as i know they developed the box by cisco's request and cisco is =
using it for lab measurements
they also can do latency/jitter measurements with two such boxes clocked =
by gps
deejay
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Tomas Daniska
systems engineer
Tronet Computer Networks
Plynarenska 5, 829 75 Bratislava, Slovakia
tel: +421 2 58224111, fax: +421 2 58224199
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blowing first.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: measl@mfn.org [mailto:measl@mfn.org]=20
> Sent: 26. j=FAna 2002 11:02
> To: Alan Sato
> Cc: nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Testing Bandwidth performance
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> On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Alan Sato wrote:
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> > What are some tools to test bandwidth perfomance? I've=20
> used iperf, but
> > are there other tools or ways to generate traffic for=20
> testing purposes to
> > see a links maximum capacity? Especially greater than a 100mb.
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> Realistically, you will need commercial hardware/software to do this
> properly. Smartbits, Shomiti, are two examples (Shomiti is=20
> less than user
> friendly, but the thing can do almost anything)
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> > Alan
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> Yours,=20
> J.A. Terranson
> sysadmin@mfn.org
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