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

[Jay Turner <jkt () iix net>]

Ostinato is an open source tool billed as "a reverse Wireshark" which might
fit your needs.  http://ostinato.org/

- jkt

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 9:44 AM 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