topic testing throughput on GAiA in General Topics

testing throughput on GAiA

Wolfgang — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:26:22 GMT

Hello checkmates,

is there some tool available in GAiA to test the throughput / bandwith beetween two gateways.

Something like "iPerf" or similar on the command line?

Thanks

Wolfgang

Re: testing throughput on GAiA

Maik — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:35:14 GMT

This has been asked yesterday ;). Take a look at this thread:
https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Management-Topics/Test-bandwidth-speed-from-Gaia/m-p/63970

Re: testing throughput on GAiA

Wolfgang — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 15:21:10 GMT

Thanks Mike,

funny thing, same question...

But I'm looking for the connection between two GAiA gateways, not from a gateway to the internet.

SCP is possible but if you have a bigger line between the gateway SCP is the limitation of the throughput.

I found "netcat" is available in GAiA an with this you can copy data from one gateway to another. This will work but it's not nice to use.

receiving gateway:

nc -v -v -l -n -p 2222 >/dev/null

sending gateway :

time yes|nc -v -v -n x.x.x.x 2222 >/dev/null
x.x.x.x 2222 (rockwell-csp2) open
Exiting.
Total received bytes: 0
Total sent bytes: 2277M (2277199872) (you must convert this to bits and divide by the time running the test, result is around 300Mbit/s in this case for 1minute)

Any other ideas?

Wolfgang

Re: testing throughput on GAiA

HeikoAnkenbrand — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 17:00:05 GMT

Hi @Wolfgang,

The question is, what exactly do you want to test?

In principle, there are several performance metrics:

Throughput (Bandwidth)
Connection rate
Packet rate
Concurrent connections
Latency

What exactly do you want to test?

There are standardized test procedures according to RFC for this:

	Throughput	Connection rate	Packet rate	Concurrent connections	Latency
RFC	RFC3511 5.1.4.1	RFC3511 5.3.1	RFC3511 5.1.4.1	RFC3511 5.2.4.2	RFC2544 26.2
Units	bit/s	Connections/s	Packets/s	Absolute number	(m)s
Testing conditions	Large UDP	Small TCP	Small UDP	Small TCP	Small UDP
Bottleneck	Bus, Interfaces	CPU	CPU	Memory	Bus, Interfaces, CPU

Re: testing throughput on GAiA

HeikoAnkenbrand — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 17:46:03 GMT

Re: testing throughput on GAiA

Wolfgang — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 18:54:21 GMT

Thanks HeikoAnkenbrand for your reply.

My problem is not the performance of the gateway. I‘ve to check the WAN link. We are observing some issues over a MPLS link and we having problems getting the needed throughput. Last device in my hands are the gateways, all others between are from the provider. If I can get the needed throughput between my gateways the MPLS link will be ok.

As I wrote, I got my results with netcat, but a better solution would be nice to have.

best regards

Wolfgang

Re: testing throughput on GAiA

HeikoAnkenbrand — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 19:09:55 GMT

I use iPerf for throughput testing.

Link:

iperf.fr

Re: testing throughput on GAiA

Wolfgang — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 06:12:13 GMT

Heiko,

I use this too, but with devices behind the gateway.

Does iperf run on GAiA ?

Wolfgang