[c-nsp] OT: Network Performance Testing

[Earls, Michael]

I like to use isic http://www.packetfactory.net/Projects/ISIC/

ISIC is a suite of utilities to exercise the stability of an IP Stack and
its component stacks (TCP, UDP, ICMP et. al.) It generates piles of pseudo
random packets of the target protocol. The packets be given tendancies to
conform to. Ie 50% of the packets generated can have IP Options. 25% of the
packets can be IP fragments... But the percentages are arbitrary and most of
the packet fields have a configurable tendancy.

Michael 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Wim De Houwer [mailto:wdehouwer at be.tiscali.com]
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 5:26 AM
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: [c-nsp] OT: Network Performance Testing


 

Hey *,

 

I know this is a little off-topic but I'm going to shoot anyway :)

 

Does anyone know of decent open source network performance testing
software ?

 

e.g. something that can do some of the things done by the hardware boxes
like "spirent smartbits", Fluke, ...

 

So I'm looking for a package that can generate (pre-defined) packets on
one interface,

 

and inspect them for errors on a second interface. Extra's would be
routing protocols & stuff, so that would be a "nice to have".

 

Regards,

 

Wim

 

 

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