Re: wanted: tool for traffic generation / characteristics / monitoring

[Dave Taht <dave.taht () gmail com>]

we use flent heavily in the bufferbloat project for creating traffic
like this and analyzing the resulting jitter, latency, and buffering.

https://www.flent.org/

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 6:47 PM, David Ramsey <dmr () ramseyfamily org> wrote:
> You might also want to look at Ostinato (open source s/w)
>
> --dmr
>
> David Ramsey
> Charlotte, NC
>
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Pablo Lucena <plucena () coopergeneral com>
> wrote:
>
> > Cisco has an IOS version called Pagent which allows you to craft whatever
> > traffic types you want (you can even push MPLS labels on the packets if you
> > want). I've used this in the past for generating client/server traffic
> > flows and measuring stats on the flows.
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Matthias Flittner <
> > matthias.flittner () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > Dear colleagues,
> > >
> > > Currently we are looking for a magic tool with which it is possible to
> > > generate specific (realistic) traffic patterns between client and server
> > > to analyze (monitor) traffic characteristics (jitter, delay, inter
> > > arrival times, etc.).
> > >
> > > It would be good if that wanted tool is not only able to generate
> > > different traffic patterns but also is able to collect different traffic
> > > metrics over time. So that it is possible to create catchy plots. :)
> > >
> > > Any hints or links would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >         -FliTTi



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