Stress Testing LAN/WAN

[nanog at daork.net (Nathan Ward)]

On 5/12/2008, at 11:23 AM, Brian Feeny wrote:

>
> I have the need to stress test a LAN and WAN.  The primary concern  
> is the WAN which is at most OC-3.  The LAN would be an additional  
> bonus if I could do that as well.
> I am familiar with tools such as those from Spirent and IXIA which  
> are very expensive.  I was wondering if someone has had to do this  
> and can recommend some open source
> tools that would work well.  I need to test a few different types of  
> traffic, specifically trying to push traffic into various switch/ 
> router policies to make sure everything is performing as
> expected.  If anyone knows of some software that works well for this  
> I would appreciate letting me know.


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Nathan Ward