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... vendors can use to
measure and report the performance characteristics of network
devices. The results of these tests will provide the user comparable
data from different vendors ...
... vendors with which to evaluate these devices.
A previous document, "Benchmarking Terminology for Network
Interconnect Devices" (RFC 1242), defined many of the terms that are
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... router for an environment that does not (and will not) support that
protocol. Evaluating even that data which is relevant to a
particular network installation will require experience which may not
be readily available. Furthermore, selection of the tests to be run
and evaluation of the test data must be done with an understanding of
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... Two different setups could be used to test a DUT which is used in
real-world networks to connect networks of differing media type,
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... DUT which is used in
real-world networks to connect networks of differing media type,
local Ethernet ...
... It is understood that a level of broadcast frames of 1% is much
higher than many networks experience but, as in drug toxicity
evaluations, the higher level is required to be able to gage the
effect which would otherwise often fall within the normal variability
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... routing frames are designed to change the
routing to a number of networks that are not involved in the
forwarding of the test data. The first frame sets the routing table
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... filters described
above, a practical requirement. Networks in the real world are not
limited to single streams of data. The test suite SHOULD be first run
with a single protocol ...
... addresses SHOULD be random and uniformly distributed over a range of
256 networks and random and uniformly distributed over the full MAC
range ...
... routing update MUST include all of the
network addresses that will be required for the trial. All of the
addresses ...
...
Normal network activity is not all in a single direction. To test
the bidirectional performance ...
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The full suite of tests SHOULD be run along with whatever modifier
conditions that are relevant using a single input and output network
port on the DUT ...
... distinct pathways, for example, multiple interface cards each with
multiple network ports, then all possible types of pathways SHOULD be
tested separately.
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... Many current router and bridge products provide many network ports in
the same module. In performing these tests first half of the ports ...
... are wanted then frames SHOULD be distributed between all of the test
protocols. The distribution MAY approximate the conditions on the
network in which the DUT would be used.
...
... are wanted then frames SHOULD be distributed between all of the
listed sizes for the protocol under test. The distribution MAY
approximate the conditions on the network in which the DUT would be
used. The authors do not have any idea how the results of such a test
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... used. The authors do not have any idea how the results of such a test
would be interpreted other than to directly compare multiple DUTs in
some very specific simulated network.
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... collected. In this extension, the single DUT is replaced by a system
of interconnected network DUTs. This test methodology would support
the benchmarking of a variety of device/media/service/protocol
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... load but this is an unrealistic way to gauge the functioning of a DUT
since actual network traffic normally consists of bursts of frames.
Some of the tests described below SHOULD be performed with both
steady state ...
... interfaces to transmit more than one frame each time that the token
is received, most of the network devices currently available transmit
only one frame per token. These tests SHOULD first be performed
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... data stream and also with each of
the test frames addressed to a new destination network.
Reporting format: The report MUST state ...
... reset.
This test SHOULD only be run using frames addressed to networks
directly connected to the DUT so that there is no requirement ...
... appears to give a result which is the average of the two.
5. Wide Area Network (WAN) performance may be tested by setting up ...
... routing updates.
The network addresses 192.18.0.0 through 198.19.255.255 are have been
assigned to the BMWG ...
... IP Class C network addresses from 198.18.1.0 to 198.18.64.0 have been
assigned for use on the "input" ports ...
... port is node 1 on the appropriate
network. For example, a two port DUT would have an IP address ...
...
Some of the described tests assume adjacent network routing (the
reboot time test for example). The IP address ...
... are located at node 10 of each of the appropriate Class C networks.
A series of Class C network ...
... networks.
A series of Class C network addresses from 198.18.65.0 to
198.18.254.0 has been assigned for use as the networks ...
... network addresses from 198.18.65.0 to
198.18.254.0 has been assigned for use as the networks accessible
through the phantom routers on the "input" side of DUT ...
... DUT. The series
of Class C networks from 198.19.65.0 to 198.19.254.0 have been
assigned to be used as the networks visible through the phantom
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... Class C networks from 198.19.65.0 to 198.19.254.0 have been
assigned to be used as the networks visible through the phantom
routers on the "output" side of the DUT ...
... router (Figure 2) or the end node if
adjacent network routing is being used.) It is assumed that the
router ...
... port
(see section C.24). This update includes the network addresses that
are reachable through a phantom router ...
... addresses that
are reachable through a phantom router on the network attached to the
port. For a full mesh ...