Re: RFC2544 Testing Equipment

2017-06-02 Thread James Bensley
On 30 May 2017 at 16:41, James Harrison wrote: > On 30/05/17 16:22, Nick Olsen wrote: >> Looking to test up to 1Gb/s at various packet sizes, Measure Packet loss, >> Jitter..etc. Primarily Copper, But if it had some form of optical port, I >> wouldn't complain. Outputting a report that we can pro

RE: RFC2544 Testing Equipment

2017-06-01 Thread Aaron Gould
We used VeEX for a while and had our CO Techs run around with hand-held VeEx testers and run tests from them to a VeEx loopback device I config'd mpls pw's between them. We don't really do this anymore... we now role out Accedian MetroNid's and MetroNode's which have a lot of this RFC2544 a

Re: RFC2544 Testing Equipment

2017-06-01 Thread James Harrison
On 30/05/17 16:22, Nick Olsen wrote: > Looking to test up to 1Gb/s at various packet sizes, Measure Packet loss, > Jitter..etc. Primarily Copper, But if it had some form of optical port, I > wouldn't complain. Outputting a report that we can provide to the customer > would be useful, But isn't

Re: RFC2544 Testing Equipment

2017-05-31 Thread James Bensley
On 31 May 2017 at 11:56, Saku Ytti wrote: > Cool. Seems you're using AF_PACKET, which makes it actually unique. > iperf/netperf etc use UDP or TCP socket, so UDP performance is just > abysmal, you can't saturate 1GE link with any reliability. So > measuring for example packet loss is not possible

Re: RFC2544 Testing Equipment

2017-05-31 Thread Saku Ytti
Cool. Seems you're using AF_PACKET, which makes it actually unique. iperf/netperf etc use UDP or TCP socket, so UDP performance is just abysmal, you can't saturate 1GE link with any reliability. So measuring for example packet loss is not possible at all. I've been meaning to write AF_PACKET based

Re: RFC2544 Testing Equipment

2017-05-31 Thread James Bensley
On 30 May 2017 at 16:22, Nick Olsen wrote: > Greetings all, > > Looking for a good test set. Primary use will be testing L2 circuits > (It'll technically be VPLS, But the test set will just see L2). Being able > to test routed L3 would also be useful. Most of the sets I've seen are two > sided,

Re: RFC2544 Testing Equipment

2017-05-30 Thread Shawn L via NANOG
JDSU make some nice ones that we use to qualify cell tower back haul. Not cheap though -Original Message- From: "Jeremy Austin" Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 11:29am To: "James Breeden" , "n...@flhsi.com" , "nanog@nanog.org" Subject: Re: R

Re: RFC2544 Testing Equipment

2017-05-30 Thread Jeremy Austin
JW, have you moved on to EtherSAM? That's what I'd be looking for myself. On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 7:28 AM James Breeden wrote: > When we had to do this once in a blue moon, we just bought a pair of old > Agilent Framescopes off ebay. They worked great but we had issues getting > reporting out of

RE: RFC2544 Testing Equipment

2017-05-30 Thread James Breeden
When we had to do this once in a blue moon, we just bought a pair of old Agilent Framescopes off ebay. They worked great but we had issues getting reporting out of them. They had RJ45 and SFP on them. -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces+james=arenalgroup...@nanog.org] O