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WAN Killer bandwidth limitation

This article discussed the limitation with the amount of traffic that WAN Killer can generate

First published date

8/20/2020 12:07 AM

Last published date

6/1/2021 2:32 PM

Overview

WAN Killer is used to generate traffic specially for stress tests in the network.
There is an option to change the bandwidth of the traffic.

Product section

Engineers Toolset

Resolution

Although we can assign more bandwidth on the WAN Killer tool than what the target supports, it's more likely that the target device will process the request at its rated max bandwidth. It will never go above it, and it will just start dropping the packets. This limitation is also true with the bandwidth of the network card of the machine where the WAN Killer application is installed.

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