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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Re:MRTG by darnok · 2004-11-02 20:01 · Score: 3, Insightful

Parent is absolutely right - MRTG's capabilities are top notch, and adding RRDTool enhances it even further.

I've been an HP Openview consultant in a previous life, and MRTG+RRDTool is at least as good in terms of reporting and data management as anything HP has to offer. On top of that, it's free, simple to set up and doesn't require a lot of grunt to drive it.