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From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Favorite network stress tests?
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:56:56 -0700
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Ben Greear wrote:
>> Does any one have a favorite network stress test?
>> There are the usual benchmarks like ttcp, netbench, are there others?
>> NFS?
> 
> 
> pktgen is good for testing/abusing drivers, below the IP stacks.

netperf is another for TCP/UDP stream and req/response
kind of stuff. There is support for sendfile, IPV6, etc.

thanks,
Nivedita