[Battlemesh] tests for WBMv3

[Alex]

Am Wed, 26 May 2010 11:40:48 +0200
schrieb Benjamin Henrion <bh at udev.org>:

> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Luca Tavanti
> <luca.tavanti at iet.unipi.it> wrote:
> > Hi Elektra,
> >
> > Thanks for the quick reply :)
> >
> > Yes, ping could be a useful tool for generating simple traffic and
> > collecting statistics.
> >
> > As for running two protocols at the same time, it has pros and cons.
> > You indeed let them work under the same environment, but, what if
> > you want to compare three or more protocols? Set up a sort of
> > tournament? Also, how can you be sure that the protocols do not
> > disturb each other? Especially when you increase the load, this is
> > not such a remote possibility...
> >
> > Finally, can I ask you how you plan to measure overhead?
> 
> What I did to generate traffic between 2 foneras was to create a 4MB
> file with DD in a ramfs (/tmp/4M), and wget it to /dev/null on the
> otherside.
> 
> I avoid using iperf now, because packet generation takes too much CPU.
> 
> Otherwise the best is to generate the traffic with computers that are
> not routers.
> 

yes, better, as i think it's good to test different packetsizes. wget
will not do this.
I am really courious how the different protocols optimise on diffrerent
packetsizes.

> Benjamin Henrion <bhenrion at ffii.org>

Alex