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PostPosted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 9:25 am    Post subject: Network Bandwith tester Reply with quote

I have been searching for a bandwith tester for an internal network. Something that will let me get some benchmarks between say machine 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.2.

Any suggestions?

Also, it would be nice to have something that was dependant on hard drive speeds so that it would be more accurate information.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 12:34 pm    Post subject: Re: Network Bandwith tester Reply with quote

Hi Eleazar!

eleazar wrote:
I have been searching for a bandwith tester for an internal network. Something that will let me get some benchmarks between say machine 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.2.

Any suggestions?

Also, it would be nice to have something that was dependant on hard drive speeds so that it would be more accurate information.
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You mean _in_dependent?!

I recommend http://freshmeat.net/projects/netio/.

Unfortunately it depends on cpu power. But with modern computers that's no problem. Just watch for it when using it on old ones.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 28, 2003 4:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

:oops: yeah, I meant INdependant... that's what I get for sitting on the computer till 4 in the morning. 8O

I'll check that out... thanks.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 12:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Also try netperf and iperf, they are in portage tree already
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PostPosted: Thu May 01, 2003 6:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I made a new ebuild for netperf today, version 2.2pl4. Check out https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19463 and http://www.kruu.org/jvtm/portage/net-analyzer/netperf/
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PostPosted: Thu May 01, 2003 7:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

As already mentioned, netio is great.

This reminds me that I should finally finish and submit the ebuild I began a few months ago... :-/
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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2003 3:01 pm    Post subject: Re: Network Bandwith tester Reply with quote

Salze wrote:
Hi Eleazar!

eleazar wrote:
I have been searching for a bandwith tester for an internal network. Something that will let me get some benchmarks between say machine 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.2.

Any suggestions?

Also, it would be nice to have something that was dependant on hard drive speeds so that it would be more accurate information.
8)


You mean _in_dependent?!

I recommend http://freshmeat.net/projects/netio/.

Unfortunately it depends on cpu power. But with modern computers that's no problem. Just watch for it when using it on old ones.

bye
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Is there any screenshot or features description about netio?
I only find a .zip file in freshmeat and wouldn't like to install it since
it's not in the portage.
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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2003 3:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi

It is just a simple CLI tool and as far as I remeber there is only "--help" output, maybe a short readme. Operation is straightforward: You start it either as a server or as a client. AS the hompage/freshmeat says: it "measures the net throughput of a network via TCP/IP (and NetBIOS on Windows and OS/2) using various different packet sizes."

And as you only need a single file - the netio binary - you shouldn't have a mess justbecause you can't install via portage/ebuild.

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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2003 5:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

FYI: Just build and submitted an ebuild for netio.
see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20338
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PostPosted: Thu May 29, 2003 2:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi, I'm having problems with my ADSL conection and woluld like to create a report of my link quality along 24 hours or maybe a week. With this information I will have strong argument against my ADSL operator. Well, what I saw about some bandwidth benchmarks they analyze different characteristics for a single test. Therefore a sequence of these create me a multi-variate problem.

Anyone suggest me a pattern test resulting in a single variable, or at least a minimum number of variables, to be repeated each 30 minutes and then could analyze these results along hours or days?

Best regards
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PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2003 3:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thunnus wrote:


Anyone suggest me a pattern test resulting in a single variable, or at least a minimum number of variables, to be repeated each 30 minutes and then could analyze these results along hours or days?

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Why not build a shell script to do a traceroute or a ping and run it from cron.
Log the output to a file for analysis.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 03, 2003 6:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm trying with netperf, using this
Code:
*/5 * * * * echo `/usr/local/bin/netperf -H IP.OF.THE.NETSEVER -I99,2.5 -tTCP_RR -P0 -v0 -- -r 1024,256`  `/bin/date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"` >> var/log/netperf.log

in cron. I'm not sure if this conf is the best one to analyze link quality.
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