Network Performance and Stress Testing

[Bob Chiodini]

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 10:01 -0700, Brian D. McGrew wrote:
> Good morning:
> 
> Let's say I've got two Dell 1800 servers and each one of these servers
> has dual gigabit Ethernet connections.  The first connection on each
> server is connected to the corporate network at 100MB.  The second
> connection is a cross-over between the two machines running at 1GB.  One
> machine is running Fedora Core 3 and the other is running Redhat
> Enterprise Linux 3.
> 
> I need to stress test and performance test this configuration by
> continuously moving large files back and forth under various processor
> loads for a given length of time and be able to show the results when
> completed.
> 
> What are the best practices for the situation?  Is there open source
> software out there to accomplish this or do I need to write something?
> I can think of a couple of shell script configurations to do this but
> I'd rather not reinvent the wheel if I don't have to.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -brian
> 
> Brian D. McGrew ( brian at visionpro.com || brian at doubledimension.com )
> ---
> > Those of you who think you know it all,
>   Really annoy those of us who do.
> 
> 

Brian,

You might take a look at ttcp.  It's probably already on the FC3
machine.

Bob...