Aarno Aukia wrote:
Inspired by a thread on cisco-nsp (https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/2008-October/055260.html) I was wondering if there was network device testing/packet generating equipment (be it a Spirent SmartBits or Agilent N2X (thanks for sponsoring Swinog-13) or anything similar) to borrow/for rent in the swinog community ? Until now I've mostly used iperf et al to test equipment - what are your opinions and experiences regarding testing/troubleshooting/benchmarking network equipment ?
Always depends completely on what you need.
If you are on the cheap: Linux kernel has a built-in packet generator which is at least able to fill up 1GE ports, though of course it is far from as a good as any of the commercial tools.
Greets, Jeroen