Stress Testing LAN/WAN
Nathan Ward
nanog at daork.net
Thu Dec 4 22:26:50 UTC 2008
On 5/12/2008, at 11:23 AM, Brian Feeny wrote:
>
> I have the need to stress test a LAN and WAN. The primary concern
> is the WAN which is at most OC-3. The LAN would be an additional
> bonus if I could do that as well.
> I am familiar with tools such as those from Spirent and IXIA which
> are very expensive. I was wondering if someone has had to do this
> and can recommend some open source
> tools that would work well. I need to test a few different types of
> traffic, specifically trying to push traffic into various switch/
> router policies to make sure everything is performing as
> expected. If anyone knows of some software that works well for this
> I would appreciate letting me know.
iPerf.
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Nathan Ward
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