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Re: IMIX or similiar near-user-load packet generator
From: Eddie Tardist <edtardist () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 22:37:36 -0400
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:01 AM, Stanislaw Datskevich <me () nek0 net> wrote:
Thanks, Snabb Switch's packetblaster seems to be what I am looking for. My goal using it is to find out how much of real users traffic my new softrouter can handle until it begin doing packet drops.
I would recommend Trex with pkgtgen-dpdk or netmap's pkgt-gen. Have your current router average packet size and rate and generate those patterns. If you just use the suggested tools the traffic pattern may be different from what you actually have. http://trex-tgn.cisco.com https://github.com/luigirizzo/netmap
Snabb Switch (https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch/) Ostinato as already mentioned (http://ostinato.org/) - jkt On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 9:24 AM Jerry Jones <jjones () danrj com> wrote:Ostinato? On Oct 19, 2015, at 4:22 AM, Stanislaw Datskevich <me () nek0 net> wrote: Hi all. Is there any opensource packet generator which can simulate a load closest to real users? Usually I use iperf, but it can simply generate huge load.
Current thread:
- IMIX or similiar near-user-load packet generator Stanislaw Datskevich (Oct 19)
- Re: IMIX or similiar near-user-load packet generator Jerry Jones (Oct 19)
- Re: IMIX or similiar near-user-load packet generator Jay Turner (Oct 19)
- Re: IMIX or similiar near-user-load packet generator Stanislaw Datskevich (Oct 19)
- Re: IMIX or similiar near-user-load packet generator Eddie Tardist (Oct 20)
- Re: IMIX or similiar near-user-load packet generator Jay Turner (Oct 19)
- Re: IMIX or similiar near-user-load packet generator Jerry Jones (Oct 19)
- Re: IMIX or similiar near-user-load packet generator James Bensley (Oct 20)