AppLabs
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

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 HostsPASS/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.

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.

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.

Network Throughput Test 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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