utility for test purpose

Hi,
I've developed a software wich runs on a wireless mesh network. Now, I'd
like to test the result, in order to see whether it works properly.
I need to create some traffic from one host to another and see the
statistics of the connection (number of retrasmissions at TCP level and at
datalink level, throughput, etc). Do you know any tools I can use for that?
It would be nice if this program could create some diagrams about the
statistics...

I'm in Linux.
Thanks.

On Jun 21, 5:26 am, Giovanni Di Stasi <g...@picaciux.it> wrote:
> Hi,
> I've developed a software wich runs on a wireless mesh network. Now, I'd
> like to test the result, in order to see whether it works properly.
> I need to create some traffic from one host to another and see the
> statistics of the connection (number of retrasmissions at TCP level and at
> datalink level, throughput, etc). Do you know any tools I can use for that?
> It would be nice if this program could create some diagrams about the
> statistics...
>
> I'm in Linux.
> Thanks.

I have used Iperf (for traffic), tcpdump with gnuplot (for graphs) for
similar experiments before.