Re: testing cabling and NIC hardware with one machine

2017-10-26 Thread Christopher Paul
On 10/25/17 10:20 PM, Tony Sarendal wrote: Configure the interfaces into separate rdomains. /T Yup that works. For sure I know the packets are traveling along the wire using rdomains now. But I wonder how much of the RTT on each packet is due to the kernel/driver/rdomain code now. And also

Re: testing cabling and NIC hardware with one machine

2017-10-25 Thread Tony Sarendal
Configure the interfaces into separate rdomains. /T 2017-10-25 21:17 GMT+02:00 Christopher Paul : > Hi Misc, > > I have been tasked with setting up a benchmark platform to test NICs and > network cables. I'd like to do this on one PC. So I want to send packets of >

testing cabling and NIC hardware with one machine

2017-10-25 Thread Christopher Paul
Hi Misc, I have been tasked with setting up a benchmark platform to test NICs and network cables. I'd like to do this on one PC. So I want to send packets of different protocols out of one interface and into the other, across/thru the NICs and whatever type/lengths of cabling I am using. The