Saturday, April 19, 2014

SIPp tool - installing on Windows

SIPp is a tool that can be used for testing the SIP scenarios by simulating it. The download page is at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sipp/files/sipp/3.4/ as of this writing the latest version is 3.4

SIPp tool is mainly for Linux and Cygwin. Those who dont have a Linux machine, can install the Cygwin and configure the SIPp tool. SIPp on windows as per the sourceforge site, will work on WindowsXP and not on Windows 2000 due to IPV6 support.

There is a utility called SippGuiSetup.exe, but this is not really a GUI tool to simulate the test cases, but just a tool to prepare the call flows.

The detailed instructions for testing this is available at http://sipp.sourceforge.net/doc/reference.html
This notes are from my attempt to install on my Windows XP machine.

Step 1: Download Cygwin.
The download link is available at SIPp page which is http://win6.jp/Cygwin/
The version downloaded was, WpdPack_4_1_2

- Downloaded the zip file at this location and it contained bin, usr, lib files inside
- Download the WinPcap developer pack and copy to c:\cygwin\lib\WpdPack. The instructions page asked to rename the pthread.h file inside the c:\cygwin\lib\WpdPack\include , but this file was not available in the cygwin that i downloaded.

It appears that the Cygwin installation is not correct and it was not able to get to the Cygwin command line.

Tried searching again and found a link to directly install the Cygwin as an exe. The link is available here.

The cygwin installation was successful, and tried to execute the cygwin using the command prompt as well as given in the reference. However, this was getting a failure.

This needs to be tried again!

references:

http://sipp.sourceforge.net/
http://sipp.sourceforge.net/doc/reference.html

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