varnetload(8)

💖 NAME 💖

varnetload — bestie's little tool for making reproducible network traffic ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

varnetload [-d delay] [-t time to run] [-u url]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so. varnetload is a simple python script that spins up reproducible, sustained network traffic. like, it just keeps going. main character energy, honestly. 🔥

but here's the thing — for it to actually hit, you need an HTTP server chillin' on your local LAN where you're allowed to drop files. so go upload a big ol' HTML file (or literally any other kind of file, it does not care 💅) onto that HTTP server. then point the script at it with the -u option. and then — this is the fun part — play with the delay option to vary how much load you're putting on your network. tune it. vibe check it. slay. 🌸

• delay — sets the delay between individual downloads, in milliseconds. default value is 1000. but ngl, you might find values ranging from 0 to 500 wayyy more useful 👀
• time to run — sets the total run time, in seconds. default value is 60.
• url — sets the downloaded resource. default is http://myhost.mydomain/index.html.

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

tuned(8) diskdevstat(8) netdevstat(8) scomes(8) — the whole friend group 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Written by Phil Knirsch <pknirsch@redhat.com>.

🐛 REPORTING BUGS 🐛

Report bugs to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/. fr fr, they wanna know 💀

okay that's the whole page bestie, you ate 💅 this icon of a manpage was written by Phil Knirsch, dated 13 Jan 2011, and it's page varnetload(8) of the manual — periodt. 💖✨🎀