[netperf-talk] Regarding traffic generators using netperf

ASHA GOWDA gowda_asha2k at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 22 05:56:41 PDT 2006


Hi,

Thanks for the info.
Our application belongs to layer 3 , application like
MLPPP, MLFR.
So is it possible to edit this configuration using
netperf.


--- Rick Jones <rick.jones2 at hp.com> wrote:

> ASHA GOWDA wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > As part of our project we needto use netperf tool
> to
> > generate traffic for testing network processor.
> > we have to test MLPPP, MLFR application etc.
> > As I am new , I need to know how to generate the
> > traffic and use it.
> 
> Netperf as it ships does not already know about
> things like MLPPP, MLFR. 
>   Its infrastructure though should be amenable to
> adding test suites 
> that do know about those sorts of things if you
> needed to measure them 
> directly.  "Link-layer" as it were.
> 
> Otherwise, you can treat them just like any other
> link and use regular 
> tests like TCP_RR, TCP_STREAM to see how those go.
> 
> happy benchmarking,
> 
> rick jones
> 


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