[NCLUG] measuring LAN connection speed
Michael Dwyer
mdwyer at sixthdimension.com
Fri Jul 20 10:10:16 MDT 2001
> What command can I use to measure the speed of my 10/100 cards &
> switch? I seem to recall something about catting to /dev/null from
> the opposite machine's disk, and from /dev/zero or something to the
> other machine's disk.
Check out a program called "pathchar". Sic Google on that word.
It is very alpha, poorly documented, takes forever, but it seems
to work. Add the -m1500 line to it -- that seems to help.
You might also look for "bing" I've heard it does this, but
I've personally never seen it.
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