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Testing Mikrotik Routers
- Performance Testing
- Bandwidth Testing
  - Server Side
  - Client Side

Testing Mikrotik Routers

See also Network Testing

See also 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:

/tool bandwidth-server print

/tool bandwidth-server session print

To enable bandwidth-test server without client authentication:

/tool bandwidth-server set enabled=yes authenticate=no

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

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