Gavin McCullagh schrieb: > iPerf is a good tool for testing capacity and stressing things a little. > You can install it on two machines and put the switch in between them. On > machine1 run: > > iperf -s > > to setup a server and on machine2 run > > iperf -c machine1 > > to get a client to connect to the server. By default it'll do a 10 second > TCP test. You might want to use '-t 60' in the latter command to extend > the test to 60 seconds. If you want to see what's going on, add '-i 1' to > get ongoing output every second. > > You can also do bidirectional tests (probably worthwhile, you should be > able to get GigE both ways at once) and you can also do UDP tests where you > specify the bandwidth that should iperf should send at (whereas TCP will > send as fast as it can without losing packets). You can also run several > streams simultaneously. Look at the man page for more.
That's exacty what i would do. Connect a few clients, then run a bidirectional TCP iperf between each of them for a few hours (overnight?) On one end iperf -s On the other iperf -c IPADDRESS --dualtest -t 360000 -i 10 -w 512k -l 512k Take a look at the troughput you get (should be ~ 1GBit in both directions when the client is fast enough), if it's the same after a few hours i would consider the switch good (transmission errors / packet loss would automatically lower the troughput) Jakob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
