Talk about on-topic -- I'm working with bing right now. Unfortunately, it's giving some very odd results on a DS-3 line, and they're the kind on non-deterministic odd that makes one think better numbers could be procured with a hat and some slips of paper...
Works fine on DSL lines and cable modems though. Has anyone used this successfully on high capacity links? Please respond off-list and I'll summarize. Jack On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 10:34, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: > > Hi Alfredo again! > > Never mind my last mail. I got bing from: > ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/PLD/current/dists/ra/PLD/i386/PLD/RPMS/bing-1.1.3-1.i386.rpm > > Really amazing tool! > > Toshiro, thanks for insisting in a such question. > > And many thanks for you James. > > On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Alfredo C. López wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > Bing works great! It nice learn something new every day. > > It informs the speed between two nodes very accurately. Very very cool. > > Thanks James! > > > > > > ALF > > PS: I compiled it from the sources coming from Suse (search in rpmpbone for > > bing). I think you need at least Mandrake 8.2 to compile it. > > In a Mandrake 7.2 I couldn't make it work. (something missing about sockets) > > > > > > > > > > El Jue 10 Oct 2002 02:42, James Sparenberg escribió: > > > Took me a day or two to find my notes... Bing... may be the answer for > > > what you want it can tell you the bandwith throughput for any two points > > > on the net or on your lan. It's easy to use (just like ping) and it > > > works. > > > > > > James > > > > > > http://web.cnam.fr/reseau/bing.html > > > > > > On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 18:02, Toshiro wrote: > > > > I've asked several times this question before, but nobody gave me a good > > > > answer so far, let me try here :) > > > > > > > > What shall I do to know the actual connection speed (10/100Mb) of a > > > > network interface? I'm looking for a linux software solution (like > > > > typing a command, looking at some log, you name it), answers like "look > > > > at the link light of your network card/switch/etc" are not valid :) > > > > > > > > BTW, in Solaris is pretty simple to know that, just bring the interface > > > > up with 'ifconf' and you get the answer. > > > > > > > > Toshiro. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---- > > > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > -- > ----------------------- > Alan Wilter S. da Silva > ----------------------- > Laboratório de Física Biológica > Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho > Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ > Rio de Janeiro, Brasil > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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