On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Paul Mansfield<[email protected]> wrote: > Rainer Duffner wrote: >> I may be wrong, but his problem is pps (packets per second). >> That's not the same as being able to download a large file. >> Unfortunately. >> >> How does one generate a large a mount of (small) packets with "useful" >> and genuine traffic? > > set the MTU to a low value (200?) so that it forces the stream to use > many small packets > > > BTW, I suggested using a data file generated from random data to avoid > any simple compression applied by drivers and scp.
A low MTU and Apache Bench (ab) can make for a useful test. Ditto with iperf. --Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
