Rainer Duffner wrote:
Paul Mansfield schrieb:
boot a live linux disk like ubuntu
try a speed test website.
for network testing...
set up the interfaces
create a 1G test file, e.g. "dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/random bs=1024
count=1048576"
then use "time scp /tmp/random otherhost:/tmp/blah" or use "netcat -l -p
1234" on one to create a listen and on other "time cat /tmp/random |
netcat -p 1234 otherhost" to see how long it takes
also use iptraf.
you *should* be able to get close to theoretical maximum between two
machines if switches, cabling and computers are working OK.
I may be wrong, but his problem is pps (packets per second).
That's not the same as being able to download a large file.
Unfortunately.
How does one generate a large a mount of (small) packets with "useful"
an genuine traffic?
Rainer
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actually you're right. But I think there was a tool for that. iperf?
