Network Performance Testing?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday November 2, 2004 @01:50PM from the simulating-bits dept.

ItsMr.Data asks: "Recently, the department I work in has been planning on rolling out a new gigabit backbone network. We have been looking for ways to test network congestion. I am looking for a simple but accurate tool to test different paths through the network. I looked at Iperf, but I wonder what other test setups are out there, and if any are customizable to emulate differing types of traffic, such as streaming media, file sharing traffic, and video conferencing. So, what network performance testing setups do you use?"

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you're halfway there by Anonymous Coward · 2004-11-02 13:58 · Score: 3, Funny

Post a link to your site from slashdot.
The best way to test... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-11-02 15:26 · Score: 2, Funny

Invent a vaporware Mac OS X emulator called CherryOS and send out press releases to everyone. Kick back and see how long your server holds out.