rfc-7640

Traffic Management Benchmarking

B. Constantine, R. Krishnan
date2015-09 streamIETF areaops wgbmwg statusINFORMATIONAL pages51 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7640 doi10.17487/RFC7640
This framework describes a practical methodology for benchmarking the traffic management capabilities of networking devices (i.e., policing, shaping, etc.). The goals are to provide a repeatable test method that objectively compares performance of the device's traffic management capabilities and to specify the means to benchmark traffic management with representative application traffic.