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Out of curiosity does some company benchmark other types of commercial networking devices like this? Things like load balancers, DDoS protection, switches, etc.

Out of curiosity does some company benchmark other types of commercial networking devices like this? Things like load balancers, DDoS protection, switches, etc.? How do businesses shop for such products without having a standard measure from an independent third party?

PragmaticPulp 6y ago
> How do businesses shop for such products Businesses are more interested in reliability, security, price, details of the warranty, support contracts, and other details that don't show up in benchmarks. If performance is key, they buy samples and test in their workload. Or at the enterprise scale, they might get loaner units from their vendors to evaluate. Benchmarks rarely tell the full story for unique workloads.
- Jonnax 6y ago
  Kinda feels like you copy and pasted Oracle's official justification for disallowing benchmarks of their database.
westurner 6y ago
netperf and iperf are utilities for measuring network throughput: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iperf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iperf It's possible to approximate the https://dslreports.com/speedtest https://dslreports.com/speedtest using the flent CLI or QT GUI (which calls e.g. fping and netperf) and isolate out ISP variance by running a netperf server on a decent router and/or a workstation with a sufficient NIC (at least 1Gbps). https://flent.org/tests.html https://flent.org/tests.html `dslreports_8dn`: https://github.com/tohojo/flent/blob/master/flent/tests/dslreports_8dn.conf https://github.com/tohojo/flent/blob/master/flent/tests/dslr... From https://flent.org/ https://flent.org/ : > RRUL: Create the standard graphic image used by the Bufferbloat project to show the down/upload speeds plus latency in three separate charts: > `flent rrul -p all_scaled -l 60 -H address-of-netserver -t text-to-be-included-in-plot -o filename.png` In 2021, most routers - even with OpenWRT and hardware-offloading - cannot actually push 1 Gigabit over wired Ethernet, though the port spec does say 1000 Mbps.

PragmaticPulp 6y ago

> How do businesses shop for such products Businesses are more interested in reliability, security, price, details of the warranty, support contracts, and other details that don't show up in benchmarks. If performance is key, they buy samples and test in their workload. Or at the enterprise scale, they might get loaner units from their vendors to evaluate. Benchmarks rarely tell the full story for unique workloads.

Jonnax 6y ago
Kinda feels like you copy and pasted Oracle's official justification for disallowing benchmarks of their database.

westurner 6y ago

netperf and iperf are utilities for measuring network throughput: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iperf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iperf It's possible to approximate the https://dslreports.com/speedtest https://dslreports.com/speedtest using the flent CLI or QT GUI (which calls e.g. fping and netperf) and isolate out ISP variance by running a netperf server on a decent router and/or a workstation with a sufficient NIC (at least 1Gbps). https://flent.org/tests.html https://flent.org/tests.html `dslreports_8dn`: https://github.com/tohojo/flent/blob/master/flent/tests/dslreports_8dn.conf https://github.com/tohojo/flent/blob/master/flent/tests/dslr... From https://flent.org/ https://flent.org/ : > RRUL: Create the standard graphic image used by the Bufferbloat project to show the down/upload speeds plus latency in three separate charts: > `flent rrul -p all_scaled -l 60 -H address-of-netserver -t text-to-be-included-in-plot -o filename.png` In 2021, most routers - even with OpenWRT and hardware-offloading - cannot actually push 1 Gigabit over wired Ethernet, though the port spec does say 1000 Mbps.