Load Testing Util
David Hubbard
dhubbard at dino.hostasaurus.com
Fri Jun 3 17:56:45 UTC 2005
Iperf works really well:
http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/
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
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On
> Behalf Of Dan Mahoney, System Admin
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 1:49 PM
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Load Testing Util
>
>
> Hey all,
>
> Does anyone know of a (preferably opensource) tool that can generate
> network loads of specific protocols and/or levels (for example, if I
> wanted to see how much loss I got on a 1 meg spike, over time). I'm
> hopefully looking for something client/server so I'm not necessarily
> dependent on reply packets to measure the thoroughput.
>
> If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them. Privately if
> you like, as
> I realize the potential for misuse of such things.
>
> -Dan
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