On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Rainer Duffner<rai...@ultra-secure.de> 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com > For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > >
IPERF is the tool for that. You can specify packet size. I just used it to test PPS throughput for simulated VOIP traffic. Works very well. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
