[81300] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Load Testing Util
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Hubbard)
Fri Jun 3 13:57:10 2005
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 13:56:45 -0400
From: "David Hubbard" <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Iperf works really well:
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It will do tcp/udp/multicast; you can pick the rate on
the udp side and the client/server architecture lets you
measure jitter, out of order packets, loss, etc.
So you could load up a fixed rate of udp and then produce
your burst using a second copy, etc. to see what happens.
David
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> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On=20
> Behalf Of Dan Mahoney, System Admin
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 1:49 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Load Testing Util
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> Hey all,
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> Does anyone know of a (preferably opensource) tool that can generate=20
> network loads of specific protocols and/or levels (for example, if I=20
> wanted to see how much loss I got on a 1 meg spike, over time). I'm=20
> hopefully looking for something client/server so I'm not necessarily=20
> dependent on reply packets to measure the thoroughput.
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> If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them. Privately if=20
> you like, as=20
> I realize the potential for misuse of such things.
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> -Dan
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