I am in the market for 10Gbps traffic testers. Here are some of the things I'd like to have: 1) Mixed packet sizes 2) Ramp TCP sessions up/down quickly 3) Many source and destination IPs 4) Ability to ramp traffic up and down 5) Simulate targeted SYN floods 6) 10,000+ packets per second
We'll use these devices to test throughput and resource utilization on routers and firewalls/security systems. We'll also test and prove candidate QoS configurations (ie: DSCP41 still works well even when DSCP11 is saturating links).
The catch is that I work for a charitable, non-profit with limited resources. I understand you can't have steak on a sardine budget; I'm just trying to find suggestions on a testing platform for "thrifty" customers! We do not have any existing testing systems other than iPerf on a Mac Mini.
Any suggestions, either on-list or off, are welcome and appreciated. Brad Fleming
