Hello linux-newbier,
i want to know how to checking bandwidth on my coyote linux, i'm using adsl connection, coyote on Pentium I as router.. thanx 4all
Please be more descriptive about what exactly you want to check. For *example*:
1. Do you want to test actual throughput between a host on your LAN and some particular offsite host?
2. Do you want a way to test whether your ADSL line itself actually delivers the promised bandwidth?
3. Do you want to track your cumulative use of bandwidth every day for a month?
In general, the way to measure throughput is to run ifconfig periodically and compute the differences in Rx and Tx bytes (or packets, if more appropriate to your purpose), or access the /proc/net/dev pseudofile directly for the same information. But to test the capacity of a connection, you will need to measure throughput during controlled tests. Fancy tools to measure throughput are, typically, just front ends to one or the other of these approaches.
I haven't looked closely at coyote in years, and I doubt you'll find many coyote users here on this list ... so any advice you get will probably (certainly if from me) be based on standard Linux/Unix utilities, not anything specific to coyote. I believe that coyote has its own support list, so you might try that if you do want coyote-specific information.
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
