Traffic generators for DS3 link Stress test

[mvsheik123]

Hi,

Iam looking for some application (free) that generates continuous traffic on a DS3 link. Wanted to test a new DS3 link with full capacity and move it production, once completed. Any suggestions on the application to use..?

TIA

MS

[Giuseppe Larosa]

Hello Mehboob,

you can try to use netperf it requires to be installed on two linux or freebsd boxes one on site A and one on site B

see

http://www.netperf.org/netperf/NetperfPage.html

I've used it some years ago you can use UDP streams or TCP streams

(TCP results can be lower)

Hope to help

Giuseppe

[mvsheik123]

Great..thank you. Anything on windows hosts..?

MS

[Joseph W. Doherty]

You might try pcattcp.

[Danilo Dy]

Try the following...

http://www.netperf.org/netperf/

http://www.bttsoftware.co.uk/ipload.html

[cisco24x7]

I just tested this a few days ago. Iperf will work on both Windows and Unix platform. This is really a good tool.

If you want to saturate the DS-3 link, it is probably best to use UDP instead of TCP:

On the server:

iperf -u -s

On the client:

iperf -u -c 192.168.1.218 -b 45M -t 86400

[Expert@neo-fwlog]# iperf -u -c 192.168.1.218 -b 45M -t 86400

------------------------------------------------------------

Client connecting to 192.168.1.218, UDP port 5001

Sending 1470 byte datagrams

UDP buffer size: 256 KByte (default)

------------------------------------------------------------

[ 3] local 192.168.1.245 port 44737 connected with 192.168.1.218 port 5001

[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth

[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 53.7 MBytes 45.1 Mbits/sec

[ 3] Server Report:

[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 53.7 MBytes 45.1 Mbits/sec 0.019 ms 0/38316 (0%)

[ 3] Sent 38316 datagrams

[Expert@neo-fwlog]#

That will tell you if your DS-3 is fully utilized.

Easy right?

[mvsheik123]

Thanks all.

MS

[nick.mueller]

Here is a graphical front end to iPerf written in Java. You may need to rework the shell script to launch it if you are running Vista x64 as it uses 32-bit java and the path is changed to Program Files (x86).

http://code.google.com/p/xjperf/

[mvsheik123]

Thanks Nick. I am planning to use XP PC/laptop (one at each end) for the test.

MS