-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Network performance utility query! From: Dan Track <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. <[email protected]> Date: Monday, October 20, 2008 6:19:48 AM > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Max Pyziur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> IPTraf? >> >> >>> From the Description: >>> >> IPTraf is a console-based network monitoring utility. IPTraf gathers >> data like TCP connection packet and byte counts, interface statistics >> and activity indicators, TCP/UDP traffic breakdowns, and LAN station >> packet and byte counts. IPTraf features include an IP traffic monitor >> which shows TCP flag information, packet and byte counts, ICMP >> details, OSPF packet types, and oversized IP packet warnings; >> interface statistics showing IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, non-IP and other IP >> packet counts, IP checksum errors, interface activity and packet size >> counts; a TCP and UDP service monitor showing counts of incoming and >> outgoing packets for common TCP and UDP application ports, a LAN >> statistics module that discovers active hosts and displays statistics >> about their activity; TCP, UDP and other protocol display filters so >> you can view just the traffic you want; logging; support for Ethernet, >> FDDI, ISDN, SLIP, PPP, and loopback interfaces; and utilization of the >> built-in raw socket interface of the Linux kernel, so it can be used >> on a wide variety of supported network cards. >> >> >> fyi, >> >> MP >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Dan Track wrote: >> >> >>> Hi >>> >>> Does anyone know of a program that I can use to test network >>> performance. I've got to devices one linux and the other windows, I'd >>> like to see if the linux device is getting nearly the max 100Mbit of >>> performance when sending data to the windows box. Any thoughts? >>> >>> Thanks >>> Dan >>> >>> > > Thanks, > > But that's only for monitoring isn't it? I need something that would > generate the traffic aswell. Any thoughts? > > Thanks > Dan > > I believe netperf (http://netperf.org) has both a linux and a win32 variant. Netperf is run as a receiver/server on one PC and then ran as a client/sender on the other to benchmark network performance. Reverse the roles to get performance stats in the other direction.
--Blake
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