"emerge netcat" :)
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 12:57, Stroller wrote: > On 6 Sep 2003, at 1:52 am, Spider wrote: > > begin quote > > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 18:39:16 -0400 (EDT) > > > > Marshal Newrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Ernie Schroder wrote: > >> > >> > >> As far as measuring bandwidth, there's a program called 'bing' (which > >> is not in portage) which will determine the available bandwidth > >> between twopoints. I'm sure there's many good programs in > >> net-analyzer as well which do things like that. > > > > Lets play some homebrew stuff here: > > > > on the server: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1M count=100 > > nc -l -p 9999 < testfile; > > > > on the client: > > time nc server 9999 >/dev/null > >ts. I'm sure there's many good programs in > > ; > > > > Repeat three or four times for good measure. > > Sorry for replying to this so late - I seem to have some latency with > my POP3 server & this has only just come through. > > But I don't seem to have `nc` installed. What is it, please, and what > package might I find it in..? > > Thanks, > > Stroller. > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
