[Vyatta-users] how do i do a performance analysis of the vyatta router ?

2007-10-21 Thread saptarshi moitra
Hi Everyone

Thanks  to this forum, I have been able to set up a network with a vyatta
router at its center ( having eth0 eth1 and eth2 ) connected to the internet
via eth0 and to two separate LANs through eth1 and eth2 respectively. the
LANs are able to communicate with each other and with the WAN as well via
the vyatta router .

Now I want to do a performance analysis of this router . Can i get a
detailed step by step documentation of how i can go about this ? How do i
view the packets that are flowing through the router ? is there a thing like
Wireshark in vyatta ?

It would be great if someone can help me out with this issue.

Thanks and regards
Saptarshi
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Re: [Vyatta-users] how do i do a performance analysis of the vyatta router ?

2007-10-21 Thread Aubrey Wells
If you just want to see how much data you can get it to route through  
how fast, iperf is a good quick and dirty test method. put a box  
behind eth1 and one behind eth2, run iperf in server mode on one, and  
run a client on the other and see what kind of throughput you can  
get. Dont forget to adjust the concurrent threads, you'll be  
disappointed by the results from a single thread...


http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/

If you want more comprehensive performance testing, do as Stig  
suggested and check out ixia or spirent.



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Aubrey Wells
Senior Engineer
Shelton | Johns Technology Group
404.478.2790
www.sheltonjohns.com



On Oct 21, 2007, at 2:34 PM, saptarshi moitra wrote:


Hi Everyone

Thanks  to this forum, I have been able to set up a network with a  
vyatta router at its center ( having eth0 eth1 and eth2 ) connected  
to the internet via eth0 and to two separate LANs through eth1 and  
eth2 respectively. the LANs are able to communicate with each other  
and with the WAN as well via the vyatta router .


Now I want to do a performance analysis of this router . Can i get  
a detailed step by step documentation of how i can go about this ?  
How do i view the packets that are flowing through the router ? is  
there a thing like Wireshark in vyatta ?


It would be great if someone can help me out with this issue.

Thanks and regards
Saptarshi
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