[c-nsp] Link/Line Testing

[James Bensley]

Hi all,

Sorry for the delay in my response and thank you for your suggestions,
some interesting points have been made.

OK, so now lets say you have a 24 x 100Mb port switch at the access
layer and you have an EtherChannel over ports 23 + 24 to give 200 Mbps
up to the distribution layer, how can you test that each end device is
capable of pushing the 200Mbs over the EtherChannel?

Yes I could wait for a busy period and see if the port channel
bandwidth exceeds 200Mbps but thats no good if there is a problem and
the EtherChannel is configured incorrectly or the switches can't
perform and you start to drop traffic/queue it up or whatever.

Without getting another laptop and running some traffic generating
software on them both; I can't see any other way. Suggestions anyone?

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