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Wolfgang
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testing throughput on GAiA

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 

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Maik
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Wolfgang
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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
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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

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HeikoAnkenbrand
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More read here:

R8x Gateway Performance Metrics 

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Wolfgang
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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
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I use iPerf for throughput testing.

Link: 

iperf.fr 

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Wolfgang
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Heiko,

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

Does iperf run on GAiA ?

Wolfgang

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