Re: flow generating tool

2011-09-26 Thread George Jones 
 On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:49:50 +0300, Naiden Dimitrov 
 naiden.dimit...@maxtelecom.bg said:

nd Thank you for the response, but this is a tool that examines
nd data flows. 

Sorry I missed your context.  YAF will generate flows (which is what I
thought you were asking) as it sees packets stream by, but it sounds
like you want something that puts traffic on the wire.

An old standby is:

  http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/

and of course there are commercial options.  Not sure how up to date
this is, but there are quite a few options listed here:

  http://www.protocoltesting.com/trgen.html

---George Jones

Re: flow generating tool

2011-09-26 Thread George Jones 
 On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:02:11 -0400, Jason Leschnik lesch...@gmail.com 
 said:

jl Does anyone follow a network performance testing methodology,
jl using hardware from companies like ixia/spirent?

Probably more/more formal than you want, but:

  http://www.ietf.org/dyn/wg/charter/bmwg-charter

And I think you may find that some of the vendor folks are active in the WG.

---George Jones