Router load tester that is open source?

Question

For residential routers, I need a load tester that is open source; are there any recommendations?

Some testing that I would like to do is:

• Mass connections to find out max
• Simultaneously load/download/upload connections

Basically, something that is going to attempt to break my router without finding exploits, I want my router to be connection tested so I can find out its theoretical load limit.

Answer 1

There is the Linux kernels pktgen module.