From: wing_lam@jossynergy.com
Date: Sun Jul 06 2003 - 10:33:25 GMT-3
Hi Howard,
I have tried Nortel before, but do you know is there any free tools to do
it? I mean the one with versatile gui and functions.
Thx,
BBD (Big Black Dog)
"Howard C.
Berkowitz" To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
<hcb@gettcomm.com cc:
> Subject: RE: switch router performance
Sent by:
nobody@groupstudy
.com
07/05/2003 01:29
AM
Please respond to
"Howard C.
Berkowitz"
At 12:04 PM -0500 7/4/03, James.Jackson@broadwing.com wrote:
>Agreed, if stress testing you'll want to use 64 byte packets in order to
>maximize pps before you hit bandwidth limitations. Similarly it's fair to
>say that figures you see stated for pps were achieved with small packets
but
>this does not imply a direct correlation between packet size and pps
>performance. If on the other hand you're trying to simulate typical
internet
>traffic you can use the rough 7:4:1 distribution for 64 byte, 512 byte,
1500
>byte respectively.
>
>Cheers,
>James
Do look at http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2544.txt for standard
benchmark methodology.
As an aside, but appropriate for this being the CCIE list, it would
strike me that performing and explaining a benchmark would be a very
reasonable test requirement. Might be a case study on the written.
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