You can download a copy of the SolarWinds toolset from our website (the eval is free).
There's a traffic generator in there called "WAN Killer". Give it a try. Josh -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 4:27 PM To: nanog list Subject: Re: Stress Testing LAN/WAN On 5/12/2008, at 11:23 AM, Brian Feeny wrote: > > I have the need to stress test a LAN and WAN. The primary concern > is the WAN which is at most OC-3. The LAN would be an additional > bonus if I could do that as well. > I am familiar with tools such as those from Spirent and IXIA which > are very expensive. I was wondering if someone has had to do this > and can recommend some open source > tools that would work well. I need to test a few different types of > traffic, specifically trying to push traffic into various switch/ > router policies to make sure everything is performing as > expected. If anyone knows of some software that works well for this > I would appreciate letting me know. iPerf. -- Nathan Ward
