Would seeing the gigabit color be good enough to say that we have a good circuit?
From: Josh Luthman Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 2:13 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] GigE Testing Yup. Get an rb2011. Plug ether1 to 2 with a SS between. You'll see link, one color is gigabit. Hell you could run a script to check the rate and print it. For more testing you could do a MT speed test between it/to itself. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Aug 17, 2015 4:08 PM, "Chuck McCown" <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: So, could I use two ports of a Mikrotik router and make it do a bi-directional test? I presume they have a CLI or do they have a GUI? -----Original Message----- From: Larry Smith Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 2:06 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] GigE Testing Most (if not all) the mikrotik routers have a built in Bandwidth test (server or client, selectable). Believe they do UDP or TCP, send, receive or both. -- Larry Smith lesm...@ecsis.net On Mon August 17 2015 15:02, Chuck McCown wrote: I am pretty ignorant as to the abilities of any Mikrotic device. Can you enlighten me? -----Original Message----- From: Matt Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 2:01 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] GigE Testing > I am wondering if I got a GigE managed switch, could I see some phy data > speeds by looking at its management interface? Why not just a Mikrotik CCR? > Demand for our GigE surge suppressor has been growing such that I am now > limited by my test station throughput. > > > > Any ideas on how to test a GigE device go-nogo without buying more big > dollar testers (which I currently use)? > > > > It needs to be fast and show speeds in both directions. > > > > Have considered just putting up a GigE switch and plugging the surge > suppressor into two ports and seeing if they light. But that sounds > pretty > cheap and dirty. Want to see numbers. A laptop talking to another > laptop with iperf may end up being the solution. Not sure if there are > GigE USB NICS so I could do it all on one laptop or not. > > > > Any other ideas?