[Click] peak packet forwarding rate measurement

[Lan Xue]

Eddie,

Thanks for the suggestions. Is there a way to print out the handlers in a
real time fashion, while the router is still running? The -h option only
allows printing out when the router is interrupted.

Lan

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Eddie Kohler wrote:

> Lan Xue wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to measure the peak packet forwarding rate of click router
> > given a certain setup. Does the router software itself provide any
> > functionality of doing that?
>
> The real way to measure peak forwarding rate is with multiple machines, one or
> more senders, a router, and one or more receivers -- then you know you are
> measuring exactly what you wanted.  Within Click you can use
> InfiniteSource/RatedSource packet generators, and Counter elements, or the
> various elements' count and drops handlers (ToDevice and FromDevice and
> PollDevice have them, for example), to get a genearl idea.
>
> Eddie
>