[netperf-talk] Layer 4-7 Testing

[Rick Jones]

Jeff Levesque wrote:
> 	Thanks for the quick response, Rick. I'll give a little more detailed
> description of my intended usage and then you can let me know if it
> sounds workable. We're doing application testing so the traffic
> simulation needs have realistic qualities. For instance when we test a
> mail filter if we only send a message with "X"s in it it will be
> regarded as junk mail and be discarded. So what I would like to do is
> have the ability to specify the contents of the traffic. If this sounds
> like something netperf4 should be able to handle I'll spend some time
> testing it out and maybe we'll both be able to benefit.

What netperf4 offers in this area is a harness - one into which you 
would plug-in your code to send/receive email messages and whatnot.  So, 
out of the box, even if I thought the harness were fully cooked (it is 
safe to eat lets say, but not fully cooked) there would still be work - 
non-trivial work - at your end to get an "email module" created and 
pluged-in.


happy benchmarking,

rick jones