hardware question
My appologies for what may seem like a pretty dumb question but it doesn't
seem to be covered anywhere I have looked.
While I understand iperf can help me to optimise an existing link and do some
measurement on it I am comming at this from the other angle.
I have an optical Gig E transport that I need to fully load and get some sort
of measuement back on delay, jitter and packet loss. I gather therefore I
need simply to run iperf sending UDP packets and set the bandwidth to 1 gig.
The test will be run between 2 points which preferably would be the same
machine.
My question is about what sort of hardware do I need to be able to do this.
What sort of CPU do you need to be able to saturate an optical GigE link and
if I wanted to put 2 cards into one computer would the PCI bus be able to
handle this?
While I suspect that GNU/Linux may be a better choice to run ipref on in such
a case is it likely that win32 would be able to do the same thing?
I ask this question here because I figure that if anybody would know how to do
this it would be the people developing and using iperf.
Many thanks.
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Best Regards,
David Price