testing cabling and NIC hardware with one machine

Hi Misc, I have been tasked with setting up a benchmark platform to test NICs and network cables. I'd like to do this on one PC. So I want to send packets of different protocols out of one interface and into the other, across/thru the NICs and whatever type/lengths of cabling I am using. The

Re: testing cabling and NIC hardware with one machine

On 10/25/17 10:20 PM, Tony Sarendal wrote: Configure the interfaces into separate rdomains. /T Yup that works. For sure I know the packets are traveling along the wire using rdomains now. But I wonder how much of the RTT on each packet is due to the kernel/driver/rdomain code now. And also due