testing throughput on GAiA

[Wolfgang]

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 

[Maik]

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/639...

[Wolfgang]

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

[HeikoAnkenbrand]

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

[HeikoAnkenbrand]

More read here:

R8x Gateway Performance Metrics 

[Wolfgang]

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

[HeikoAnkenbrand]

I use iPerf for throughput testing.

Link: 

iperf.fr 

[Wolfgang]

Heiko,

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

Does iperf run on GAiA ?

Wolfgang