Aarno Aukia wrote: > Inspired by a thread on cisco-nsp > (https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/2008-October/055260.html) I > was wondering if there was network device testing/packet generating > equipment (be it a Spirent SmartBits or Agilent N2X (thanks for > sponsoring Swinog-13) or anything similar) to borrow/for rent in the > swinog community ? > Until now I've mostly used iperf et al to test equipment - what are your > opinions and experiences regarding testing/troubleshooting/benchmarking > network equipment ?
Always depends completely on what you need. If you are on the cheap: Linux kernel has a built-in packet generator which is at least able to fill up 1GE ports, though of course it is far from as a good as any of the commercial tools. Greets, Jeroen
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