End to End testing

Fri Dec 13 12:12:41 UTC 2019

On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 at 14:55, Fawcett, Nick via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org> wrote:
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> Anyone have any suggestions on devices that I can put at two points in the network to test packet loss, latency, jitter etc.  I was thinking of maybe engineering my own using a couple of pi’s,  but the downfall is they don’t have SFP ports.  I’m looking for something that’s portable and easy to configure and drop in.  Thanks.
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Hi Nick,

We've had great success with Exfo testers. They can be expensive if
you're a small shop, but they really do "just work". I've used many
open source tools, none of them compare to the Exfo's we have.

Cheers,
James.