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I wanted to know if anyone in this community know/found a way to simulate QUIC traffic profile. For analyzing/simulating youtube over WLAN (WiFi), i wanted to know if there is a convenient package like iperf out there.

Thanks Bharat C P

Dima Chubarov
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At the moment there are not any simulation frameworks that can be used to test QUIC traffic.

However there is a remarkable effort in order to provide stand alone implementations with the aim of testing and analyzing QUIC.

I cite just some references you might want to use to this purpose:

  • Official Google Guide which contains a sample server and client implementation in Chromium.
  • libquic a library extracted from Chromium's QUIC Implementation
  • quic-go is an implementation of the QUIC protocol in Go.
gaetano
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I was able to generate QUIC traffic using aioquic. I'm using KDE Neon, which is an Ubuntu derivative.

git clone https://github.com/aiortc/aioquic.git
sudo apt install libssl-dev python3-dev
virtualenv venv1
source venv1/bin/activate
cd aioquic/
pip install -e .
pip install asgiref dnslib httpbin starlette "werkzeug<2.1" wsproto

Then, in one terminal, run the server:

python examples/http3_server.py --certificate tests/ssl_cert.pem --private-key tests/ssl_key.pem

And in another, make an http3 request with the client:

python examples/http3_client.py --ca-certs tests/pycacert.pem https://localhost:4433/

Done.

You can see the traffic in Wireshark. The version that worked for me was 3.6.5. Note that you would need to sniff the loopback interface (Loopback: lo).

Here's how to install Wireshark 3.6.5:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wireshark-dev/stable

(need to press enter)

sudo apt update
sudo apt install wireshark
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