IP Networking

Hello all!

I have the need to performance-test a MPLS switch, I was thinking of using iperf to accomplish the task.

I had in mind using a linux box with a Gigabit interface connected to a L2 switch on a 802.1Q trunk. In the interface I would create 20 VLANs with 20 different IP subnets.

With that set, I was thinking of running 20 different iperf client instances to send 20 different, constant IP packet streams. The L2 switch would open the VLAN tags and send each different VLANs upstream to the MPLS switch through different ports.

Each VLAN would arrive in different VRF-connected interfaces, accomplishing what I am required to do so. The MPLS switch would then deliver it to a second switch, where I would have another linux box running another 20-iperf instances

I need help mainly with setting the 20 different iperf instances (both client-side and server-side).

Regards,

Persio

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