Generating traffic on switches

[afsharki2]

hello friends,

I have a little lab finally setup, and I was wondering, what is a good way to generate traffic?  do i use software? or is there a way to do this via the switches?  I have setup a 2960x, 3850, 4510 R+E, 3750 and 2960s.  I'm doing it for the purpose of testing commands on Cisco such as QOS and flowcontrol.  

Does anyone have any advice for generating heavy traffic?   A free solution would be nice, since I don't have money.

Thank you in advance

[Reza Sharifi · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You can use iperf. Its free and you can generate traffic with it using your laptop or desktop.

Here is the link to it.

https://onl.wustl.edu/NPR_Tutorial/Filters,_Queues_and_Bandwidth/Generating_Traffic_With_Iperf.html

HTH