On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, dennis wrote:
> hello plug,
>
> have a question regarding linux and bandwidth measurement. is there a software
>utility similar to ping that could measure/detect if our leased line consumes most of
>its bandwidth??.....we have a 128 leased connection but things have been so slow this
>couple of weeks....was wondering if there is a software utility that could detect if
>we have used up our bandwidth already and so tell us if its time to upgrade our
>leased connections...
>
> thanks in advance.....merry xmas everyone
>
>
> dennis
>
there is a utility called bping . it estimates available bandwidth by
flooding the line. Use this carefully however, in any way, it looks like
a denial of service attack.
otoh, probably the best (and safest) way is to use snmp and mrtg to check
the line's utilization.
the slowdown could just be also attributed to traffic. In our case, email
traffic doubled from december 22 until 25 eating what's left of our
bandwidth dedicated for email ... :(
hth
-mark
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