On 4/25/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For a brute force check, you could transfer a large number of bytes from > a byte generator (/dev/zero?) to /dev/nul, and time it. To transfer 1G One one host run nc -l -p 30000 > /dev/null On the other host run time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1024 | nc first-hostname 30000 Depending on your version of dd it may or may not display a throughput, so you may have to calculate it yourself freom the time displayed
