Is there a way to test the Max throughput of a Tik router (1100) that is using NAT internally. I have a few extra 1100s and would like to test maximum throughput. We are an ISP that is mostly providing service to student apartment communities and our front-end router of choice is the 1100. We noticed in our Cacti graphs that many of our large apartment complexes were only showing a max of 240Mbps down using 64-bit counters and SNMP. We want to setup a lab to test this -- any ideas would be appreciated.

Use three of them in line and set nat on the middle device. Then pass the btest tru it. Or use two powerful computers with traffic generator on both sides of the natting device.

Is there a way to test the Max throughput of a Tik router (1100) that is using NAT internally. I have a few extra 1100s and would like to test maximum throughput. We are an ISP that is mostly providing service to student apartment communities and our front-end router of choice is the 1100. We noticed in our Cacti graphs that many of our large apartment complexes were only showing a max of 240Mbps down using 64-bit counters and SNMP. We want to setup a lab to test this -- any ideas would be appreciated.

Traffic generator is very powerfull tool, and whith it you can simulate real life traffic, you can buld any size packet, diferent ip-protocols and chose interface to send traffic, set ip source/ip destination and so on.

Here are manual for Traffic Generator:
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:To ... _Generator
Example:
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Pe ... _Generator