From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-iy0-f171.google.com (mail-iy0-f171.google.com [209.85.210.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority" (verified OK)) by huchra.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0D5D0201AB7 for ; Mon, 9 May 2011 15:08:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by iyi20 with SMTP id 20so7303540iyi.16 for ; Mon, 09 May 2011 15:15:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=gdIyi3+kmqsDAt9fZc+BHkcYRfw+yh8ASRdESnhpU3A=; b=isejIM3l33ZKDxQ7n3yt4DmsTxts3i+v0fUQVYDwfqayKPFSwk/efGTT1jpUF4T8Qr Vkxh3yGJ7ZNML4Y8NRoi2qSnGZ1ziEIfn4BZa62Lo8jGm66a7U8rMKQ7lt2FE+WMSO9v Q58APDV7G0mtpEJQOlWN+NNH9y8rcZtFCeLTw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=ZGsiMqxOIaOvmRRCv+C8nlWTMnOq/iCdzaHb0YgEJgJrP3RmoAVFrc3OHcu/3ehEZr VM+esbIWnsHKkOmOcj4HUZ2FMw5l8VqMknfixJuyQBVfrLglm+Io1N5Z0Wkfo+6IquEy Elub565BIXn2TmljGZfsUD+8skJIbW4U746Yk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.92.206 with SMTP id s14mr4791833ibm.106.1304979316098; Mon, 09 May 2011 15:15:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.31.201 with HTTP; Mon, 9 May 2011 15:15:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 16:15:16 -0600 Message-ID: From: Dave Taht To: bismark-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=bcaec543204a93459004a2df2cfb Subject: Re: [Bismark-devel] assembling a testbed X-BeenThere: bismark-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: BISMark related software development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 22:08:45 -0000 --bcaec543204a93459004a2df2cfb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >From a testbed perspective, it would be good to drive a LOT of traffic through the routers of all sorts, while watching bismark go. So one thought is to drive them from an existing box(es), close by, from multiple network cards from a given machine or set of machines. Is there a machine available that has a few spare PCI or ePCI slots? are there some extra network cards lying around? gigE pci and pci-e cards are very cheap nowadays and there are also wireless pci adaptors of various sorts.... --bcaec543204a93459004a2df2cfb Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >From a testbed perspective, it would be good to drive a LOT of traffic thro= ugh the routers of all sorts, while watching bismark go.

So one thou= ght is to drive them from an existing box(es), close by, from multiple netw= ork cards from a given machine or set of machines.

Is there a machine available that has a few spare PCI or ePCI slots?
are there some extra network cards lying around? gigE pci and pci-e c= ards are very cheap nowadays and there are also wireless pci adaptors of va= rious sorts....
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