[c-nsp] Free/low-cost traffic generator?

[A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk]

Hi,

> Does anyone know of a free (open source or otherwise) or low cost
> traffic generator that we can use to stress test multiple gigabit
> links simultaneously? Ideally, it would be a software package that one
> can install on *nix/OSX/Windows.

netperf? the Linux packet generator?  what purpose? what do you want - 
lots of small SIP-style packets for QoS testing or lots of big FTP
frames that suck up massive TCP windows?

alan