wanted: tool for traffic generation / characteristics / monitoring

Thu Oct 1 17:18:54 UTC 2015

we use flent heavily in the bufferbloat project for creating traffic
like this and analyzing the resulting jitter, latency, and buffering.

https://www.flent.org/

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 6:47 PM, David Ramsey <dmr at ramseyfamily.org> wrote:
> You might also want to look at Ostinato (open source s/w)
>
> --dmr
>
> David Ramsey
> Charlotte, NC
>
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Pablo Lucena <plucena at coopergeneral.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Cisco has an IOS version called Pagent which allows you to craft whatever
>> traffic types you want (you can even push MPLS labels on the packets if you
>> want). I've used this in the past for generating client/server traffic
>> flows and measuring stats on the flows.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Matthias Flittner <
>> matthias.flittner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Dear colleagues,
>> >
>> > Currently we are looking for a magic tool with which it is possible to
>> > generate specific (realistic) traffic patterns between client and server
>> > to analyze (monitor) traffic characteristics (jitter, delay, inter
>> > arrival times, etc.).
>> >
>> > It would be good if that wanted tool is not only able to generate
>> > different traffic patterns but also is able to collect different traffic
>> > metrics over time. So that it is possible to create catchy plots. :)
>> >
>> > Any hints or links would be greatly appreciated.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance.
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> >         -FliTTi
>> >
>> >
>>

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