Re: [Ethereal-users] Re: [Ethereal-dev] Tool for generating IP traffic?

["Lars Ruoff" <lars.ruoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ian,

I'm just looking for a tool that can generate arbitrary UDP and TCP traffic
between two points of an IP network to stress a specific segment.
Nice to have would be a packet loss and roundtrip delay analysis for the UDP
streams.
I think of something where you run a program or service on all remote
endpoints you are interested in and then setup and start/stop the traffic on
the different segments from a central pilot program.

I've been pointed to
http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/ ,
http://www.netperf.org/netperf/NetperfPage.html ,
"netcat"

Iperf and Netperf seem to be benchmarking tools that  run a series of tests
and then exit. That's not exactly what i want.
I didnt have time to look at netcat so far.

Lars


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Schorr" <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Ethereal user support" <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 9:46 PM
Subject: [Ethereal-users] Re: [Ethereal-dev] Tool for generating IP traffic?


> Lars,
>
> Are you just trying to generate a general amount of load to be carried
> across some link (network load/stress testing), or to be captured by an
> analyzer (like Ethereal)?  Or are you looking for something to generate
> load to a server?  Either way, do you have any more details on what
> you're trying to do?
>
> Ian
>
> On Jun 30, 2004, at 9:27 AM, Lars Ruoff wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Anybody knowing of a good freeware tool for generating IP (TCP,UDP)
> > traffic
> > for load/stress testing?
> > Preferably on Windows 2000/XP.
> > Thank you,
> > Lars Ruoff
> >
> >
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