[AusNOG] Load Testing Tools?

[Beeson, Ayden]

+1 for iperf, it’ll run 10gbps fairly well too even on commodity desktop hardware with the right cards ☺

Thanks,
Ayden Beeson

From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Colin Stubbs
Sent: Friday, 9 May 2014 2:48 PM
To: PRK
Cc: AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Load Testing Tools?


Apache jmeter is immensely useful. It can be used to throw load at HTTP/HTTPS and a lot of protocols over top of that (SOAP/XML, JDBC, AJP etc) as well as do generic TCP connects (with auth and custom data), SMTP, LDAP queries, POP3, IMAP ... and probably more which I've never used. Can function distributed also, e.g. tests distributed from one client to multiple jmeter servers.

It can't do UDP natively, but it would be fairly trivial to front RADIUS auth with a HTTP interface that jmeter can talk to. e.g. Basic auth against a bunch of servers with Apache/mod_auth_radius.

I've used iperf/jperf for generic TCP/UDP data to test QoS etc. Could almost certainly be pushed to 10G with enough CPU or multiple hosts.

http://iperf.sourceforge.net/

http://jmeter.apache.org/

-Colin

On 9 May 2014 14:23, PRK <ausnog at digitaljunkie.net<mailto:ausnog at digitaljunkie.net>> wrote:
Hi all,

I'm curious what load testing tools (commercial or home grown, if any) people use for generating network & systems load to test throughput & response times.

Eg for capacity testing, performance testing after a network or software change, etc.

More specific examples would include radius server testing packets per second (to cater for a brown out disconnect / reconnect event), or proxy server testing peak requests per second, or throughput testing an upstream 10Gbit link from a carrier, etc.


prk.




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