Re: Traffic Generator

Hi Andy,

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 6:27 AM, andy thomas <thomasandy32_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I want to apply policing for 2 MBps i tried to generate traffic by ping
> request for 150000 packets so the bandwidth occupied by this traffic was
> only 210 kbps then i thought something alternate so that i can get the
> result I tried by applying policing @ 200 kbps and generate a ping request
> for 150000 packets but the bandwidth occupied by this traffic rate is only
> 10 kbps i have seen this by sh policy-map inter command,
>
> I want to test the policing for what i applied on interface???? Any traffic
> generator software so that it can generate traffic upto policing level and i
> can test my allocated policing bandwith is perfect to the traffic rate. At
> present there is no live traffic to verify. AND any bandwidth
> monitoring software to watch my live traffic rate is occupying this much
> bandwidth.

You should be able to generate more traffic using ping, even if you
need to start multiple terminal sessions.

You could also consider 'ttcp' -- see:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk801/tk36/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094694.shtml

cheers,
Dale

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Received on Sat Oct 31 2009 - 10:53:33 ART