Data Plane Testing

• Measures: packet throughput, loss, delay and ipdv

• traffic mesh

• traffic load

• constant and burst traffic

• packet contents (e.g. IP, TCP, or UDP)

• source, destination addresses

• TOS (type of service)

• standard often referred to is RFC 2544

• often referred to in the industry as “packet blasting”

• time stamps

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