[Nigel Barker] > I was wondering about the amount of traffic to and from a workstation. > We have a "temporary" building (ie. permanent but cheap) which is > connected to the main building by a wireless link which sometimes drops > packets, depending on the weather or whether we really need it to work > well or not that day. Skolelinux workstations in that building are very > slow compared to identical machines in the main building. This is > because they are constantly shuffling data to tjener, right? > Is there something I can do about it? eg. stop some services.
The iftop tools with the -P argument can be used to measure the amount of traffic per protocol. A workstation uses mostly LDAP and NFS to the main-server, which should not amount to very much in the normal case. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
