LVR-InfoKom · Kalk (RZK) & Chorweiler (RZC)

TRex Network Monitoring
& Performance Test Platform

Permanent loss, latency and jitter monitoring across both data centres, plus on-demand line-rate, convergence and stateful firewall tests — the plan to build it and the course to run it.

Plan · v0.92

TRex Plan

Concept, implementation plan and operations guide for the platform — from the bill of materials to day-to-day operation.

  • Concept
  • BOM & cabling
  • Switch & firewall
  • Server build
  • trexctl
  • InfluxDB & Grafana
  • Operations
Open the plan
Training · v1.0 draft

TRex Training

An interactive course from first principles to troubleshooting, with animations, videos, self-check questions and full-text search.

  • TRex & DPDK
  • EMU & ASTF
  • TX-switch / QinQ
  • Traffic classes
  • Monitoring
  • Scenarios
  • Troubleshooting
Start the course