Re: [CentOS] looking for ideas about how to create a constant data stream

2020-05-30 Thread Jonathan Billings
On May 30, 2020, at 06:46, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > > You can't read from /dev/null. You get nothing from it. You're better off > using /dev/random, for example. That will give you a continuous stream of > random bytes. /dev/random will block when you run out of entropy, so you won’t get a

Re: [CentOS] looking for ideas about how to create a constant data stream

2020-05-30 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On 5/30/20 5:46 AM, Anand Buddhdev wrote: On 30/05/2020 12:32, h...@gc-24.de wrote: Hi hw, I'm looking for a good way to create a constant data stream that will occupy a bandwidth of about 2--5Mbit/sec between two remote hosts over the internet.  I have full access to the hosts involved.

Re: [CentOS] looking for ideas about how to create a constant data stream

2020-05-30 Thread hw
On Saturday, May 30, 2020 12:46:02 PM CEST you wrote: > On 30/05/2020 12:32, h...@gc-24.de wrote: > > Hi hw, > > > I'm looking for a good way to create a constant data stream that will > > occupy a bandwidth of about 2--5Mbit/sec between two remote hosts over > > the internet. I have full

Re: [CentOS] looking for ideas about how to create a constant data stream

2020-05-30 Thread Yamaban
On Sat, 30 May 2020 12:32, hw@... wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a good way to create a constant data stream that will occupy a bandwidth of about 2--5Mbit/sec between two remote hosts over the internet. I have full access to the hosts involved. My first attempt to use scp to copy data from

Re: [CentOS] looking for ideas about how to create a constant data stream

2020-05-30 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On 30/05/2020 12:32, h...@gc-24.de wrote: Hi hw, I'm looking for a good way to create a constant data stream that will occupy a bandwidth of about 2--5Mbit/sec between two remote hosts over the internet. I have full access to the hosts involved. My first attempt to use scp to copy data from

[CentOS] looking for ideas about how to create a constant data stream

2020-05-30 Thread hw
Hi, I'm looking for a good way to create a constant data stream that will occupy a bandwidth of about 2--5Mbit/sec between two remote hosts over the internet. I have full access to the hosts involved. My first attempt to use scp to copy data from /dev/null on host A to /dev/null on host B,