Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:37:11 -0400 From: "fbsd" <fbsd@a1poweruser.com> To: "jay alvarez" <vpsb0y@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Any idea how to stress test our bandwidth? Message-ID: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGAELKHKAA.fbsd@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <20060811080134.37712.qmail@web39811.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Your client has major flaw in their test plan. Just because they have large bandwidth to you does not mean the public websites that want to test with also have that size bandwidth. So any time they test loading up targeting some public website they will be limited to some portion of the targeted website max bandwidth. Both sending and receiving sites must have same bandwidth for their test plan to have meaning. Like when client tests with you who is their ISP. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of jay alvarez Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 4:02 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Any idea how to stress test our bandwidth? I hope you don't mind my asking this here. I'm working in an ISP right now. We are using mrtg for each client connected to us. They can view their mrtg statistics. Their way to the internet is to us. Say a client connects to us via E1, they are guaranteed of 2.048Mbps because our uplink to the Internet is more than the total of all the clients link's bandwidth that are connected to us. Now one client wants to make sure that they will be able to reach their guaranteed bandwidth through the mrtg graphs. If we transfer huge data from their site only up to us, we can theoretically stress out their bandwidth. However, they want to try increasing their consumption and see for their self if they will reach the desired bandwidth if they are actually connecting to any site in the Internet, outside our network. Running iperf from their site to us doesn't seem to reflect to the MRTG. Any idea how to explain this to our client? Thank you very much for your help -JaY __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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