If you're interested in Open Source, I might suggest getting a *nix box and installing any of several tools on it.
Iperf is probably most directly relevant: http://iperf.sourceforge.net/ SmokePing is nominally a latency graphing tool, but it should be useful in this context as well.. http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/ ntop isn't directly appropriate in this context, but if you have a span/mirror port in the right location it can prove incredibly useful http://ntop.org This is a decent article http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netos/article.php/3658331 On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 15:09, G.Waleed Kavalec <[email protected]> wrote: > ATT has fumbled reporting on our MPLS and for a time our two main sites were > connected at less than full capacity. > Since this is a "managed service" we can't go into the devices themselves, > so what kind of once-an-hour test can we run? > > -- > -- > > Gregory Waleed Kavalec > --------------------------------------------- > If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths > probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he > abandonded this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep on > exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. > -- Douglas Adams > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
