There are a variety of (quite expensive) commercial players in this area although I've never used any of them. Our network vendor favors Ixia (www.ixiacom.com). A google search for IP performance testing pulls up a number of hits. It tends to be expensive because you need to be able to source data from disk at a fairly high speed. Its possible raid arrarys may be able to sustain the read speed and may be cheaper (in a build it your self) than a commercial solution but a commercial version will almost certainly be quicker because it isn't easy :-). You probably need PCI express busses as PCI maxes out at just over a gig.
Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 09:36:30AM -0500, William Cobau wrote: > Tcpreplay community, > > I am already successfully using tcpreplay for my testing activities. > Our setup is rather simple with a Linux server (typically Redhat EL5) > connected directly via 1000 B/T to the system under test. The linux > server uses tcpreplay (presently v3.2.5, but we could/will upgrade to > v3.3.x) to send previous captured data streams to the system under > test. There is no need for tcprewrite or the other tools in the > tcpreplay suite as the tcpreplay box is simulating a mirror port or a > tap. > > We are trying to enhance our testing by increasing amount of data and > the data rate. The data was captured at roughly 350 Mbps over 3 hours > for 450 Gbytes/1e9 packets. > > Has anyone built or bought a box that handles this data rate and > volume? Any suggestions or comments would be welcome. > > Bill Cobau > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Tcpreplay-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tcpreplay-users > Support Information: http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/trac/wiki/Support ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Tcpreplay-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tcpreplay-users Support Information: http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/trac/wiki/Support
