Not sure I understand. You want to test >100mbps throughput on a switch etherchannel without any devices to actually generate and/or receive traffic?
Iperf is fast, easy, and runs on both win and non-win systems very nicely. This would be a poor test for real life traffic but will test raw bytes per second with ease. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -----Original Message----- From: James Bensley <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:07:05 To: [email protected]<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Link/Line Testing Hi all, Sorry for the delay in my response and thank you for your suggestions, some interesting points have been made. OK, so now lets say you have a 24 x 100Mb port switch at the access layer and you have an EtherChannel over ports 23 + 24 to give 200 Mbps up to the distribution layer, how can you test that each end device is capable of pushing the 200Mbs over the EtherChannel? Yes I could wait for a busy period and see if the port channel bandwidth exceeds 200Mbps but thats no good if there is a problem and the EtherChannel is configured incorrectly or the switches can't perform and you start to drop traffic/queue it up or whatever. Without getting another laptop and running some traffic generating software on them both; I can't see any other way. Suggestions anyone? -- James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/ There are 10 kinds of people in the world; Those who understand Vigesimal, and J others...? _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
