Testing 1gbps bandwidth

Tue Aug 14 12:05:55 UTC 2012

No, I don't want to test just the link. I want to make sure the path in my
ISP also has enough backplane bandwidth and isn't using some old sup32
and thereby throttling traffic

-----Original Message-----
From: Valdis Kletnieks [mailto:valdis at vt.edu] On Behalf Of
valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 3:40 PM
To: Luqman Kondeth
Cc: nanog at nanog.org; menong at mengon.net
Subject: Re: Testing 1gbps bandwidth

On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:32:47 +0400, Luqman Kondeth said:
> Is anyone aware of any public IPerf servers in the middle east or
> close
> by?(Europe) or anywhere that can do udp?. I have a 1gbps Internet link
> which I've been asked to show that it has 1gbps download speeds.

First thing that comes to mind is remembering the difference between
end-to-end throughput and the throughput across one link in the chain.
If you really need to validate the one link, you probably need to get some
system to inject packets at the other end of the link.