Need more routes, so as to have a big honking routing table with with to filter
and redistribute?
Add static routes for networks and sub-nets, pointing them at null0. This will
put them in your table, and give you a great way to experiment with filtering
and redistrbution, not to mention perfecting your summarization skills.
As for traffic generation, there are a number of commercial products, but I'd
recommend you get cozy with Linux. I use Linux as a swiss-army knife. There
are countless tools for it that do all manner of things.
If you want to put a load on one of your links, it's hard to beat:
'ping -f -s 1400 <target host>'
The '-f' switch means flood, which tells ping to send the next ping packet
immediately after sending the first, rather than waiting for the reply from the
previous ping.
The '-s 1400' switch sets the packet size to 1400, rather than the default
packetsixe of 64.
You can run this process to a bunch of destinations simultaneously. This ought
to give you stressed WAN links, ethernet collisions, drops, retransmissions,
etc. etc.
Another great feature of Linux is the ability to use a regular computer as a
real live OSPF, BGP, RIP v1 or v2 peer. It'll look like another vendor's box,
perhaps, but the Configuration interface for "Zebra" (Which provides the OSPF
and BGP stuff) mimics almost identically the syntax which you'd use on a Cisco
box.
Besides, aren't you tired of looking for the tftpd.exe file, and not having a
real DNS box nearby? :)
Alan~
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Cotts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Andrew Shappell'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 1:07 PM
Subject: RE: Traffic and Route Generator
> http://www.antara.net/
> They position their product as an e-commerce site stressor. Might be worth
> checking.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew Shappell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 10:43 AM
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> > Subject: Traffic and Route Generator
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> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Can anybody recommend a good traffic generator and/or a good route
> > generator. I need to do some QoS testing in a Lab
> > Environment and need
> > to generate lots of traffic. Thanks...
> >
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