stress testing software routers

[Joerg Johannes]

On Tuesday 05 August 2003 19:48, Dan wrote:

> I'd like to stress test a software router to determine how many
> packets it can handle per second. Is there any package available for
> doing this? One requirement I would need is that I should be able to
> create custom packets to be used for the test. If anyone has done
> this or something similar and want to share tips/techniques I'd
> appreciate it.

Is that what you want?
jorg@btb8x1:~$ apt-cache show scapy
Package: scapy
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 168
Maintainer: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@agi.as>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.9.14-1
Depends: python2.2
Filename: pool/main/s/scapy/scapy_0.9.14-1_all.deb
Size: 43376
MD5sum: 953cc067a553b1ca61c3cdd840e8fbe2
Description: Packet generator/sniffer and network scanner/discovery
Scapy is a powerful interactive packet manipulation tool, packet
generator, network scanner, network discovery, packet sniffer, etc. It
can for the moment replace hping, 85% of nmap, arpspoof, arp-sk,
arping,
tcpdump, tethereal, p0f, ....

[Nicos Gollan]

On Tuesday 05 August 2003 19:48, Dan wrote:

> I'd like to stress test a software router to determine how many packets
> it can handle per second. Is there any package available for doing this?
> One requirement I would need is that I should be able to create
> custom packets to be used for the test. If anyone has done this or
> something similar and want to share tips/techniques I'd appreciate it.

Did you have a look at the packet generator in the kernel (probably not part
of standard kernel images)? It's in "Networking Options/Network testing" in
the kernel configuration (option name CONFIG_NET_PKTGEN)

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