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Abstract:
The Benchmarking Methodology Working Group (BMWG) has been developing key
performance metrics and laboratory test methods since 1990, and continues this work at present. The
methods described in RFC 2544 are intended to generate traffic that overloads network device resources
in order to assess their capacity. Overload of shared resources would likely be harmful to
user traffic performance on a production network, and there are further negative consequences identified with
production application of the methods. This memo clarifies the scope of RFC 2544 and other
IETF BMWG benchmarking work for isolated test environments only, and it encourages
new standards activity for measurement methods applicable outside that scope. This document
is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational
purposes.
Authors:
Scott Bradner <sob@harvard.edu>
Kevin Dubray <kdubray@juniper.net>
Jim McQuaid <jim@turnipvideo.com>
Al Morton <acmorton@att.com>
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