Junos OS

Hi

 

I am fairly new to the networking industry and my understanding of routers is quite limited so any answers may need to be simplified, thanks.

 

I am investigating the possibility of stress testing several types of router (simultaneously or individually) by either using a windows program or by setting up a clever ping loop. The systems I am using are:

J2300

J2320

J4350

SRX240

SRX650

SRX3600

M7i

M10

MX960

 

Basically what I need to do is drive various rates and amounts of data through these routers (and obviously receive the traffic back to test the transmit) continuously to give the routers a thorough hammering, with little intervention as possible.

 

If Juniper have a test program or script that can run something like this automatically, that would be even better; but this seems to be the best way I can think to stress test these types of routers.

 

Many thanks for any help.

Hi Paul,

You can have a look on the program ixia chariot to test your devices on performance.

This program is a good solution to make different types of traffic, like tcp udp and icmp

Br

Maarten

Hi Maarten

 

Thanks for the reply.

 

ixia chariot looks fantastic but also probably expensive and a little on the overkill side.

 

Have you any suggestions for cheaper maybe even free download application or is this unreasonable to suggest for the task i have in mind??

 

Regards

 

Paul

iperf is maybe the solution you are looking for

 

but if you really want to test a MX960 you need to go with a hardware appliance to generate traffic.

Or use a proper network card and some programming skills to generate packets

Found the answer to my own question.

 

Check this out:

 

http://www.nsauditor.com/network_tools/network_traffic_generator.html