Application Baselining Setup

Whenever I mention Application baselining or profiling I get quite a few emails asking, “How do you do that?” and “Is there a standard template you use?” Spoiler alert, unfortunately there isn’t a standard template or standard way of performing a baseline. So I thought it would be a good idea to create a series of articles to walk you through how I do it. It starts with the setup. I need to know the behavior and performance of the equipment I’m using. I decided to use some standard computers and not traffic generators. The goal is to show you the methodology that you can use with whatever you happen to have at work, not purchase more equipment. I find that if a client learns how to do something, they are more likely to purchase a commercial product and understand how products in that space work. I chose a desktop and laptop for my tests for the reasons mentioned earlier. The first thing I need to do is determine the performance of the computers in case I decide to use them for throughput testing as well as application testing. Another reason for choosing a laptop is that in the real world I would use a laptop to test WiFi and remote networks back to a wired desktop. I used iperf3 (https://iperf.fr) to get a measurement within the computers as well across my network. My goal is to ensure that the devices can generate over 1 Gbps internally before I introduce them to the network. Its important to test upload (transmit

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