Re: Tuning Gigabit

From: David Gilbert (dgilbert_at_velocet.ca)
Date: 07/03/03

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To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>

    >>>>> "Eric" == Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> writes:

    Eric> What would be a good initial start hardware-wise?

    To start testing this type of setup (gigabit routing), you'd need a
    vlan'able switch with many gigabit ports, and then for each test you
    need:

    1 or more packet generators (one interface each)

    1 router (two interfaces)

    1 or more victims (one interface each)

    For bidirectional packet passing tests, it's best to have two (or
    more) generators and 2 or more victims. The victims generally have
    the least load and are good places to measure actual traffic passed.

    It's a good idea to have serial (or other) console on each of these
    machines as livelock is not uncommon. There are also useful
    statistics you can collect from the console that you can't always get
    from the network login ... because the near-livelock conditions may
    not give you enough updates.

    It is also sometimes a good idea to have a 100meg card in the boxes
    for OOB management.

    Multiply this times the number of tests you want to do. We find that
    you get about one test every two hours total work (much tearing down
    and building up of machines inbetween included in that estimate).

    Dave. 

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