Traffic Generation on a router

[kevin.hu]

Hi all,

How do you generate enough test traffic from a router to another router to saturate a p2p T3 circuit?  I want to generate this test traffic so that I can verify the provider actually gives us a T3 bandwidth and I don't want to purchase expensive WAN test equipment.  Also, I want to do it directly from the router because most times the LAN is not even set up yet in a new site.  TTCP or IP SLA maybe?

Thanks.

Kevin

[vmiller]

If you ordered a plain vanilla DS-3 your test is not necessary.

If you ordered frame relay, it can be subrated and delivered on a

DS-3 interface.

[kevin.hu]

Thanks Vmiller.  I guess I have trust issue, especially with the provider.  I can't trust them give me a "full" T3 unless I test it thoroughly.  Any other idea on how to saturate a T3 circuit from a router?

[cadet alain]

Hi ,

Iperf should do the trick   http://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf/

Regards

[cadet alain]

Oups sorry didn't see you wanted on router so forget my previous post

[Talha Ansari]

Hi,

You may try ttcp but avoid it in production network...

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk801/tk36/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094694.shtml

[kevin.hu]

ok, thanks I will give it a try to see if that will saturate a T3 link.