On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 12:29, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Sa, den 22.05.2004 schrieb Scott A. Zanke um 17:54: > > > A few months ago there was a discussion on testing lan speed here. It > > was a command line where you would start it on two boxes on the lan to > > test and it would report the throughput speed. I think one box was set > > as the receiver and the other as a transmitter. I've searched the > > archives but can't seem to find it. Anyone remember? > > > Scott > > Maybe it was netio > > http://freshmeat.net/projects/netio/ > > It tests the connection between sender and receiver using different > package sizes. > > http://www.netfuse.de/techarea/netio/netioserver.gif > http://www.netfuse.de/techarea/netio/netioclient.gif > > Alexander > I remember now. It is ttcp. Start your receiving box with ttcp -s -f m -l 81920 -n 40960 -r Start your transmitter box with ttcp -s -f m -l 81920 -n 40960 -t <ipaddress goes here> Let it run for a minute or two then kill the transmitter with ctrlc
