On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Jared Mauch <ja...@puck.nether.net> wrote:
> > > On Sep 9, 2016, at 4:08 PM, Dan White <dwh...@olp.net> wrote: > > > > We're being caught up in some sort of peering dispute between Level 3 and > > Google (in the Dallas area), and we've fielded several calls from larger > > customers complaining of 40-50% packet loss (to 8.8.8.8) when there > appears > > to be no actual service impacting loss. > > > > We currently suggest customers use a Linux server to ping against, or > > another public host. > > > > Ideally we'd like to use a hardware based ICMP system for customer use - > > Accedian NIDs are good at this (exceptionally low jitter) accept they > > throttle at 500 pings per second. > > I know that the NETNOD folks did NTP in a FPGA that can do 4x 10GE, > perhaps that card and code could be used to do 40G ICMP responder? > > or, alternately test some useful application instead? I mean, 'wget' will tell you stats about the bw/etc... apache-bench will as well, and you can probably whip up some custom python/etc that'd do the same sort of thing.
