Täht: Flaws and features in the Flent network testing tool

Dave Taht describesthe Flent network-testing tool and its use in great detail.

With flent - in the 110 tests in it - in a matter of minutes youcan replicate any network stress test out there" and comparenetworking results across an extraordinary number of variables,over time, across many tests. Before Toke Hoiland-Jorgensendeveloped flent, it would take days to set up a single test andsingle plot. Now you can be deluged in data, graph it quickly, andcan investigate network behaviors in minutes that take othersupport staff, engineers and SREs months, plot accurately, overeach change you make, with comparable results in a standardizedfile format, and a zillion useful plot types.