WAN Certification Requirements and Procedures
(rev 1.1)
Exodus Performance Labs
v1.1a June 3 1999
| Ping functionality |
PASS/FAIL |
Ping to own address Ping to specific host
Ping flood |
| Traceroute Ping functionality |
PASS/FAIL |
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| tcpdump functionality |
PASS/FAIL |
| Loopbacks functionality |
On-board
Loopback at loopback plug
Loopback near end DSU digital
Loopback at near end DSU analog
Loopback at far end DSU digital | PASS/FAIL |
| FTP functionality |
| Small file from Local Host to Remote Host
Small file from Remote Host to Local Host
Large simultaneous transfers between Hosts | PASS/FAIL |
| TTCP functionality |
PASS/FAIL |
| Use ttcp between the test system and a client to alternately send and receive, using various
size packets and various size files. |
| HTTP functionality |
PASS/FAIL |
| Use http to read HTML on remote Web Server
Use http to serve HTML to a remote Web browser |
| Telnet functionality |
PASS/FAIL |
| Local Host login to Remote Host
Remote Host login to Local Host |
| Cisco HDLC functionality |
PASS/FAIL |
| Keep-alive turned on on Cisco and it interoperates and link status is UP as reported by IOS.
Keep-alive turned off on Cisco and it interoperates and link status is UP as reported by IOS.
Keep-alive turned on on Cisco and interval configured to 30 seconds and link status is UP as
reported by IOS. |
| Card-to-Card routing functionality |
PASS/FAIL |
| Use ttcp between two client systems to send data through the test system, with two NIC's in it,
each client attached to a different NIC, using the test system to route data between the two
clients. Use the same packet sizes and data configuration as from the TTCP test. |
| Performance Test functionality |
PASS/FAIL |
| At least 95% of Line Rate at packet size >= 512bytes as measured by netperf; No other
applications running.
Characterize the following:
What are best inputs?
Does CPU % scale?
#/writes
/bytes per write
socket buffer size |
| Network functionality (IP) |
PASS/FAIL |
| With two systems running Linux, install a NIC into each. Set up both systems such that they
are on the same local network. Have system one ping system two. Open an FTP session to
system two and transfer a file. Open a telnet session to System one.
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| Samba server/client functionality |
PASS/FAIL |
| With two systems running Linux, configure system one as a Samba
Server, and system two as a Samba Client. Have system one request documents from
system two. |
| Apache server/client functionality |
PASS/FAIL |
| With two systems running Linux, configure system one as an intranet web server running Apache. Configure system two as a local network node. Have system two request documents
from system one.
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| Routing IP functionality |
PASS/FAIL |
| With two systems running Linux, install a NIC into each. Set up both systems such that they are on the same local network. Have system one ping system two. Open an FTP session to system two and transfer a file. Open a telnet session to System one.
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| Network Throughput Test
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PASS/FAIL |
| With two systems running Linux, install a NIC into each. Using the TTCP tool, verify proper throughput between both systems,
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