As you know, we've been doing some testing lately of some WAN accelerators from different hardware vendors. This has caused me to to need to generate traffic of varying types and weight and has got me to thinking about traffic generators in general. The SolarWinds Toolset has a great tool for generating UDP or TCP echo and discard traffic (WAN Killer) but in this case I needed to generate some more specific types of traffic and to generate some specific TCP transaction types.
So, we're going to write some utilities for generating test traffic here in-house and I'm also looking at possibly purchasing some appliance-based traffic generators. I'm hoping a few of you may write back with a) any experiences you've had with the various traffic generators out there and b) if you'd like to see more advanced traffic generation capabilities within the SolarWinds Toolset.
Flame on...Josh
Josh
Traffic generation would be great, how about a WAN test tool that has a client and server part that goes on devices on either side of a WAN link then you can have the app send a custom size and number of packets to the other end and you receive the stats on round trip time packet loss etc. There's a basic DOS one I've used in the past but a GUI with a few more advance features would be good.
Thanks
Jon
Jon,
That's pretty much what I was thinking, too. What types of traffic would you be most interested in generating?
I would be interested in Ctrix, RDP, HTTP, HTTPS, SQL and Oracle traffic.
It would also be useful if the tool could be extended to doing LAN traffic generation also, now that a lot of our apps traffic is moving from being internal to being out on the BT N3 NHS Extranet we need to prove that if the apps are running slow or not having problems it's not on our network.