====== Testing Mikrotik Routers ======

See also **[[networking:network_testing|Network Testing]]**

See also **[[networking:mtu_test|Testing MTU, Jumbo Frames and Packet Fragmentation]]**

===== Performance Testing =====

http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Performance_Testing_with_Traffic_Generator

===== Bandwidth Testing =====

http://www.mikrotik.com/testdocs/ros/2.9/tools/btest.php

  * TCP testing has TCP overhead
    * About 10%
  * UDP testing is closer to real maximum
  * Set MTU to the maximum allowed by links
    * Probably 1500+
  * Don't test on a production router
    * Unless you understand that network traffic and test results may be negatively impacted
  * To test the real throughput of a router, you should run bandwidth test through it not from or to it

==== Server Side ====

View status:

<file>
/tool bandwidth-server print

/tool bandwidth-server session print
</file>

To enable bandwidth-test server without client authentication:

<file>
/tool bandwidth-server set enabled=yes authenticate=no
</file>

==== Client Side ====

An example to run a 15-second bandwidth-test:

  * To a router (server) at 10.0.0.211
  * Sending and receiving 1000-byte UDP packets
  * Using username admin to connect

<file>
/tool bandwidth-test 10.0.0.211 duration=15s direction=both size=1000 protocol=udp user=admin
</file>