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This draft is a work item of the Benchmarking Methodology Working Group of the IETF.
Title : RFC 2544 Applicability Statement: Use on Production Networks Considered Harmful
Author(s) : Scott Bradner
Kevin Dubray
Jim McQuaid
Al Morton
Filename : draft-ietf-bmwg-2544-as-06.txt
Pages : 9
Date : 2012-09-04
Abstract:
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 encourages new standards
activity for measurement methods applicable outside that scope.
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