On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote:
On Sep 9, 2016, at 4:08 PM, Dan White <dwhite@olp.net> wrote:
We're being caught up in some sort of peering dispute between Level 3 and Google (in the Dallas area), and we've fielded several calls from larger customers complaining of 40-50% packet loss (to 8.8.8.8) when there appears to be no actual service impacting loss.
We currently suggest customers use a Linux server to ping against, or another public host.
Ideally we'd like to use a hardware based ICMP system for customer use - Accedian NIDs are good at this (exceptionally low jitter) accept they throttle at 500 pings per second.
I know that the NETNOD folks did NTP in a FPGA that can do 4x 10GE, perhaps that card and code could be used to do 40G ICMP responder?
or, alternately test some useful application instead? I mean, 'wget' will tell you stats about the bw/etc... apache-bench will as well, and you can probably whip up some custom python/etc that'd do the same sort of thing.