Bandwidth Tester

The bandwidth testing application bwtester enables a variety of bandwidth tests on the SCION network. Installation and usage are described below. Documentation of the code and protocol are described in the bwtester README.

Install

To install bwtestclient and bwtestserver, run:

sudo apt install scion-apps-bwtester

See Installation for details.

bwtestclient

You can run the bandwidth test client application as follows:

scion-bwtestclient -s <server-address>

Sample servers are installed at the various locations in the SCIONLab network, see below.

Controlling the bandwidth

The application supports specification of the test duration (up to 10 seconds), the packet size to be used (at least 4 bytes), the total number of packets that will be sent, and the target bandwidth. For instance, 5,100,10,1600bps specifies that 10 packets of size 100 bytes will be sent over 5 seconds, resulting in a bandwidth of 1600bps. The question mark ? character can be used as wildcard for any of these parameters. Its value is then computed according to the other parameters. The parameters for the test in the client-to-server direction are specified with -cs, and the server-to-client direction with -sc. So for instance to send 1 Mbps for 10 seconds from the client to the server, and 10 Mbps from the server to the client, you can use this command:

scion-bwtestclient -s <server-address> -cs 10,1000,1250,1Mbps -sc 10,1000,12500,10Mbps

For more information run the application without arguments to print its usage.

bwtestserver

The server is started as follows:

scion-bwtestserver --listen=:30100

where --listen specifies the server (optional address and) port.

SCIONLab Bandwidth Test Servers

There are multiple bandwidth servers deployed inside the SCIONLab infrastructure. Some of them can be reached using the following addresses

16-ffaa:0:1001,[172.31.0.23]:30100
16-ffaa:0:1002,[172.31.43.7]:30100
16-ffaa:0:1003,[172.31.19.144]:30100
16-ffaa:0:1004,[172.31.0.28]:30100
16-ffaa:0:1005,[172.31.26.94]:30100
16-ffaa:0:1007,[172.31.21.177]:30100
17-ffaa:0:1102,[129.132.121.164]:30100
17-ffaa:0:1102,[192.33.92.68]:30100
17-ffaa:0:1102,[192.33.93.177]:30100
17-ffaa:0:1107,[192.33.93.195]:30100
17-ffaa:0:1108,[195.176.0.237]:30100
17-ffaa:0:1108,[195.176.28.157]:30100
18-ffaa:0:1201,[128.2.24.126]:30100
19-ffaa:0:1303,[141.44.25.144]:30100
19-ffaa:0:1309,[158.42.255.13]:30100
20-ffaa:0:1401,[134.75.250.114]:30100
20-ffaa:0:1404,[203.230.60.98]:30100
26-ffaa:0:2001,[134.75.253.105]:30100
26-ffaa:0:2002,[134.75.253.20]:30100