Testing Bandwidth performance

Jared Mauch jared at puck.Nether.net
Wed Jun 26 05:02:39 UTC 2002


	I think they are talking about generating an OC3s worth
of traffic.  while you could fill it all up w/ ntp packets
as one method, I do not beleive it will create the desired result.

	but yes, if you are wanting to measure
latency across your network or a circuit, ntp when properly
synchronized can be quite a useful tool.

	- jared

On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 01:02:29AM -0400, Martin Hannigan wrote:
> 
> At 11:30 PM 6/25/2002 -0400, Wojtek Zlobicki wrote:
> 
> >I've found IPERF to work quite well.  TTCP is also great.  For a commercial
> >solution,
> >you may want to look for products from companies such as IXIA.
> 
> 
> Whatever happened to using NTP between sites? Works well if you have
> clocks at each site. Sorta works on strat 1/2 no clock.
> 
> 

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