It is possilble using the router extended ping command to genrate traffic equivalent to 1Mbps, say in use of testing a policy map or something. I am interested in if it is possbile to determine a exact amount from the router,
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traffic equivalent to 1Mbps, say in use of testing a policy map or something.
Use it and then see what the load on the interface was with the show interface command.
You can control the amount of traffic generated by varying the "Datagram size". There are limits to the amount of control that you have since there is a minimum size to the packet and since the router waits to receive one ping before sending another, on a duplex medium you are limited to about 50% of the bandwidth. This will be further reduced is the path round trip time is not small.
You can get higher traffic levels by running more than one ping simultaneously in different vty sessions.
Clearly there are limits to the amount of traffic that can be generated depending on the router CPU.
There are commercial tools that will accomplish wat you want. Smartbits.
You might want to take a look at IP Load
Cheers, Spencer Teran
R Siffredi wrote:
equivalent to 1Mbps, say in use of testing a policy map or something.
Thanks,
That looks very handy.
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