I set up a SDN using Mininet and Pox, now I need to measure statistics on certain links, such as packet loss. I was suggested to use Wireshark. I thought of filtering the arriving packets with tcp.analysis.packet_loss (don't know if it does work for this purpose) but this way I need a client-server tool to generate some TCP traffic to capture, not random TCP, but at least with progressive sequence number (so I can track packet loss). iperf is not good for me because I need a tool that doesn't generate "congestion" of a link. Other methods for measuring statics are ok. Can you help me, please?
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I could run an Apache server on one side, and then use wget on the other host to download a file. Wget runs over HTTP, that uses TCP, so it's good for monitoring packet-loss. The only problem is that i need to set a limit on bandwidth usage. – Nicolò Sprea Aug 12 '16 at 7:48
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wget --limit-rate=20k http://.... woudl limit it to 20k/sec – ivanivan Dec 10 '16 at 5:35
You can almost certainly do this with python 2 & scapy.
- Scapy is a packet capture, analysis, manipulation and generation tool.
- Free, gratis & open source
- Cross platform including OS-X, Windows & Linux
- Easily send a set of packets with an incrementing field
- Analysis of the results, including graphical results, within the tool
- Scapy can have its own routing table rather than using the system one
- You can save your tests as scripts so as be able to retest later
- Lots of examples and a demo
answered Aug 11 '16 at 16:29
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I think scapy does the job, but i was looking for something simple that I don't need to program myself, otherwise I would go for Python and socket programming. I think it's not dead simple to initiate a TCP connection (3-way handshake) and than write a client-server app that waits for ACKs, ecc. – Nicolò Sprea Aug 12 '16 at 7:44
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