If you run into trouble with the ByteBlower GUI you can contact our
support ( support.byteblower@excentis.com ). It is best to add as much
info to so we can asses directly what the problem is and help you
further. The relevant info is
* ByteBlower proj...
CHANGELOG 2.11.0 (2019-12-04)
DOWNLOAD
You can download the latest version at
https://setup.byteblower.com/software.html.
ENHANCEMENTS
* Added support for the Wireless Endpoint to collect network
information over time.
FIXES
* TCL: The signature...
2.11.0 (2019-12-04)
ENHANCEMENTS
* The meetingpoint is aware of SSID, BSSID, RSSI, WiFi Channel and
WiFi transmit rate on supported devices. To use these features you
will also need to update the Wireless Endpoint on the device and the
ByteBlower API ...
Signal quality has a large impact on Wi-Fi performance. Since 2.11.0
of the ByteBlower Server, ByteBlower API and the Wireless Endpoint, it
is now possible to map the RSSI, WiFi channel and the BSSID on your
throughput!
Watch it here in action!
The Wireless Endpoint is available for several operating systems. Not
all of them expose the same Wi-Fi statics. The table below lists which
value is available on the system.
OPERATING SYSTEM
SSID
BSSID
RSSI
CHANNEL NUMBER
TX RATE
A...
Latency is the time a packet takes to travel from source to
destination. Hence, seeing negative latency values in the report is
always a surprise, it's as if packets arrived even before they were
sent! The figure below is one such an example. This article...
2.6.0
NEW FEATURES:
* Support for MacOS Catalina
* Cheat mode is no longer required to open config files with eSafe
TLVs
BUGFIXES:
* Fixed an issue where negative MIB value numbers were converted to
their 2-complement positive number
* Fixed ...
A ByteBlower has 2 or more traffic interfaces on the Server. They are
located on the back of the server and marked with
a T _(TRUNKING) _or a NT _(NON-TRUNKING)_. When you receive your
system, it is pre-configured.
This article explains how to configure ...
The Byteblower GUI generates several types of reports. The HTML and
PDF reports from the ByteBlower GUI are limited by size of the
test-run. On this page you'll a guideline to how large your tests can
grow. This is a limitation by the graphing of the resu...
This article is a short guide on how to create an RFC-2544 test with
the ByteBlower GUI. This test estimates the throughput of your
network. The main advantage is that you have proper control over a
number of parameters. The drawback is that RFC-2544 test...
2.10.8 (2019-08-29)
ENHANCEMENT
* Add support for ByteBlower 3200 Gen2
2.10.6 (2019-08-14)
FIXES
* Unintended traffic on the management interface TCP port 9002 could
cause the ByteBlower daemon to stop. We've made it robust against
these packets
...
At times you find yourself repetitively tweaking the speed of a Frame
Blasting flow: a little bit faster has too much loss, slightly slower
results in no loss, slightly faster again... This is time consuming
and a perfect case for the Throughput wizard.
...
This article describes the behavior of the NATDiscovery in the
ByteBlower GUI. The text intends to answer technical questions. For a
step-by-step guide on how to use NATDiscovery we have an article in
the examples section
[https://support.excentis.com/ind...
This article is intended for debugging a ByteBlower 1300. Only when
the ByteBlower debug log contains the line below should you go through
the steps below, preferably after contacting the
support.byteblower@excentis.com.
> STOPPED BYTEBLOWER DUE TO: NO ...
This article explains the situation where a server is asked to
generate more traffic than available by its hardware. There are a
number of ways this can happen, but the response is always the same.
We'll first explain the reason and next delve into the ca...
By default the XRA-31 system will use DHCP to get its management IP.
In some lab-environments this is not wanted. This page explains you
how you can configure a fixed IP on the management interface.
All this configuration is done by using the Wicd tool ...
There are three methods to obtain the management IP address of an
XRA-31 system: Either using the graphical UI of Wicd, using wicd-cli
or using the ip command line tool.
Are you looking to configure a fixed IP address or change the network
configuration...
This API release includes the beta release of the Python code. You
find an introduction to the Python API in this howto
[https://support.excentis.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/152/27/using-the-byteblower-python-api].
The full change-log is f...
INTRODUCTION
When you are testing your device with ByteBlower, you sometimes like
to have a pcap-capture of the data for debugging purpose. With the
ByteBlower API we can easly capture that network traffic and present
it to you as a pcap-file. This featu...
