[c-nsp] Re: Packet Generator

[Stephen J. Wilcox]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Aaron Glenn wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:09:41 +0100, Thomas Kernen <thomas at ip-man.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Ixia fan here, great hardware and software but way too expensive,
> > sometimes the hardware does show up on ebay & co and some good prices
> > but 15K won't buy you a chassis and cards :-(
> > 
> > Thomas
> 
> I apologize in advance for the naive question, but what exactly are
> these Ixia and Spirent boxes doing that justify five figure price
> tags?

they can do a lot of things you probably cant do with the linux setup i 
suggested but based on the requirement - to transmit 75mb of ip packets i'd use 
linux