How to overload network card on VMWare

[Silverblood]

Hello all,

I've been away for a long time, but i now have a question that i can find nothing about anywhere on the web, cause i'm trying to do something that everyone tries to avoid.

I'm looking for a way to overload the network card of my vmware image, to try how a program reacts when the network load on the server is high.

The way i've tried to do this is to make a cmd program with the follow line :

start C:\stresstest.cmd
ping 192.168.10.128 -l 65500 -t

and placing the stresstest.cmd into the C:\.

This starts endless amounts of command prompts that will keep on pinging the vmwareimage, and manages to get the network card to a load of 15% (which is just the way i need it). The problem here however is that when it reaches that 15%, it starts getting time-outs, and therefor dropping back really fast.

Is there a way to get this to work without getting time-outs?
Or do you guys know any other way to emulate networkload on a single computer (i can't overload the entire network, then my colleagues and bosses will become very angry)

Thanks guys

 

[georgedwilkinson]

What happens when you ping localhost? Just an idea, though I don't expect it to do much for you.

 

[Silverblood]

I've tried that, but that generates 0 network traffic.

At the end i manually started endless pings from the host to the client vmware, and i managed to get the network adapter of the vmware at a load of 10% without it shutting down, but that didn't gave me the results that i was looking for. Anyone else got any options?