Ethernet performance tests

Thu Oct 28 00:11:09 UTC 2010

For comissioning testing, you can use a hardware packet generator to send packets to an Ethernet demarcation with a MAC-swap loopback, and analyse the returned traffic.

For ongoing performance monitoring, having Y.1731 capable CPE is highly desirable.

Jonathon.

-----Original Message-----
From: Diogo Montagner [mailto:diogo.montagner at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, 28 October 2010 12:33 p.m.
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Ethernet performance tests

Hello everyone,

I am looking for performance test methodology for ethernet-based circuits. These ethernet circuits can be: dark-fiber, l2circuit (martini), l2vpn (kompella), vpls or ng-vpls. Sometimes, the ethernet circuit can be a mix of these technologies, like below:

CPE <-> metro-e <-> l2circuit <-> l2vpn <-> l2circuit <-> metro-e <-> CPE

The goal is verify the performance end-to-end.

I am looking for tools that can check at least the following parameters:

- loss
- latency
- jitter
- bandwidth
- out-of-order delivery

At this moment I have been used IPerf to achieve these results. But I would like to check if there is some test devices that can be used in situations like that to verify the ethernet-based circuit performance.

The objective of these tests is to verify the signed SLAs of each circuit before the customer start to use it.

I checked all MEF specifications and I only find something related to performance for Circuit Emulation over Metro-E (which is not my case).

Appreciate your comments.

Thanks!
./diogo -montagner

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