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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 devices 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.
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