[Soekris] Net 4801 performance

[Ryan Langseth]

On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 00:31 +0200, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> 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
Yea, I made the mistake of not googling before posting, I found
tcpreplay a little while afterwards. 

Thanks anyways
Ryan