Network Testing Skill
Comprehensive skill for network testing, benchmarking, and performance validation across all network layers.
Capabilities
- •Bandwidth Testing: Run iperf3/netperf for throughput and bandwidth measurement
- •Load Testing: Execute load tests with wrk, hey, k6, and Apache Bench
- •Latency Analysis: Measure and analyze latency with ping, mtr, hping3, and traceroute
- •Protocol Conformance: Conduct protocol conformance testing against specifications
- •Chaos Engineering: Run chaos engineering network tests (packet loss, latency injection)
- •Test Reporting: Generate comprehensive network test reports with metrics
- •Performance Benchmarking: Benchmark network performance against baselines
- •Connection Testing: Test connection establishment, teardown, and pooling
Tools and Dependencies
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iperf3- Network bandwidth measurement - •
netperf- Network performance testing - •
wrk- HTTP benchmarking tool - •
k6- Modern load testing tool - •
hey- HTTP load generator - •
tc- Traffic control for network shaping - •
mtr- Network diagnostic tool - •
hping3- TCP/IP packet assembler
Target Processes
- •network-testing-framework.js
- •load-testing-tool.js
- •protocol-fuzzer.js
Usage Examples
Bandwidth Testing
bash
iperf3 -c server.example.com -t 30 -P 4 iperf3 -s -p 5201
HTTP Load Testing
bash
wrk -t12 -c400 -d30s http://localhost:8080/ k6 run --vus 100 --duration 30s script.js hey -n 10000 -c 100 http://localhost:8080/
Latency Analysis
bash
mtr --report --report-cycles 100 example.com hping3 -S -p 80 -c 100 example.com
Network Chaos
bash
tc qdisc add dev eth0 root netem delay 100ms 10ms tc qdisc add dev eth0 root netem loss 5%
Quality Gates
- •Bandwidth meets requirements
- •Latency within SLA thresholds
- •Error rates below threshold
- •Connection handling validated
- •Protocol conformance verified