[60373] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: testing bandwidth of big internet pipes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mans Nilsson)
Thu Aug 7 18:14:04 2003
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 00:13:24 +0200
From: Mans Nilsson <mansaxel@sunet.se>
To: Arjan Lugtenberg <arjan.lugtenberg@planet.nl>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Subject: testing bandwidth of big internet pipes Date: Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at=
06:26:17PM +0200 Quoting Arjan Lugtenberg (arjan.lugtenberg@planet.nl):
> Hi,
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> We as a Dutch network provider deliver also ATM lines and other big inter=
net pipes for several big company's over here.
> At the moment we are looking for a good badwidth test within your network=
to test the line and to see if the customer gets what he has asked/paid fo=
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> sometimes it happens we deliver a big ATM line (for instance) and after a=
couple of hours the customer complains about the actual line rate.
> These problems has to be tested at the point of delivery so that the cust=
omer and ourselves are convinced the right line is configured in the ATM ba=
ckbone.=20
> The test has to be done in such a way that a full T1 can be pulled to the=
max.
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> What kind of bandwidth tests do other people on the list use for these bi=
g lines?
> Are there any documents written about such kind of tests?
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> Please let me know.
The Swedish Consumer Protection Agency (Konsumentverket) is sponsoring
a test suite called "tptest" that has been developed by several
different organisations and individuals for some time now. The
source is available via Sourceforge, at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tptest/
The official end-user download page, in swedish only: http://www.tptest.se
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M=E5ns Nilsson Systems Specialist
+46 70 681 7204 KTHNOC
MN1334-RIPE
You mean you don't want to watch WRESTLING from ATLANTA?
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