Generate test traffic from Cisco router?

[adil.nasser3]

I have configured an Cisco 881 router in our lab with netflow commands and pointed to our network monitoring tool and I want to check if the tool can collect valid traffic statistics from this router (eg. utilization).  The problem this router has nothing plugged into a production LAN that would potentially generate traffic to measure using this tool.

Is there a way to configure a Cisco router (ex. Cisco 881 router) to artificially generate network traffic to test that I have setup the monitoring tool correct to capture future utilization statistics?

Adil Nasser

adil.nasser@owenscorning.com

[Todd Pula]

You could use the IOS IP SLA Monitor feature to have the router generate traffic such as ICMP, UDP, and HTTP among others.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/customer/docs/ios/12_4/ip_sla/configuration/guide/hsla_c.html