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Can Dr. Watson be used to place a stress load on a network?

April 26, 2017Dr load Network stress Used Watson

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Can Dr. Watson be used to place a stress load on a network?

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Yes. Dr. Watson is able to generate a degree of network load. The load generated depends on the speed of the machine on which Dr. Watson is running and the type of Ethernet interface. Dr. Watson typically can generate up to 1500 to 2000 packets per second on a fast computer. Dr. Watson can instigate much higher traffic loads, however, between other, higher performance machines. This capability has been able to generate loads which saturate Ethernets.