[Soekris] Net 4801 performance

[Arnt Gulbrandsen]

Ryan Langseth writes:
> Does anyone have a method for testing more than just throughput? I am 
> currently running into issues with packet loss across some of our 
> wireless APs. I suspect it is a combination of number of connections 
> and bandwidth. But I would like to do some real world testing in a 
> clean enviroment, before blindly adding more hardware and causing 
> (potentially more) interference. Basically I would like to "replay" 
> real traffic across our test network to see if I can duplicate the 
> problem, But I am not sure what tools are available to test our 
> equipment this way, any suggestions?

tcpdump a nice active network and write a dump file. Then use a replay 
tool to send all that across your test network. Google for 'tcpdump 
replay' to find some suitable tools (I've no browser right now, I'm 
afraid, and no such tool installed).

Arnt