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Date: 21 June 2004
 

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Stress Testing the Data Plane

Stress test your device’s data plane with Agilent’s multi-port Packets and Protocols Application.

High traffic loads place heavy demands on both the hardware and software components of a Layer-2 device. Before deployment, its interfaces, switching fabric, memory, buffering and scheduling mechanisms, and Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) tables must be thoroughly stressed to ensure the device can switch traffic from its input buffers to the appropriate output queues at full line rate.

This application note describes how to use Agilent N2X to define and generate up to 32,768 streams per port to help you stress a Layer-2 device’s data plane. You can build any type of Layer-2 to Layer-7 Protocol Data Unit (PDU) and receive per-port or per-stream statistics on the test traffic to help identify problems with your device quickly and easily.

Testing network devices has never been easier!

  • Fine-grained measurements on up to 32k customers or services
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