See also Network Testing

See also Testing MTU, Jumbo Frames and Packet Fragmentation

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

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

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

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