On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Mark Robinson wrote: > Thanks for the pointers for the Mandrake docs. I have another > interesting problem that's kind of Linux related. > > One of my clients has a wireless link between two of their buildings. > They have no idea what speed it runs at, and they're no longer in > touch with the company that put it in. What (linux based) software is > there for testing throughput over ethernet? I can isolate both ends > of the link for a short while, with a linux box directly connected to > each end.
If you can run code on both ends, try iperf. Its an intensive process, so don't try to use the network at the same time! You might want to look into pipechar and pathchar. HTH Paul. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Particle Physics (Theory & Experimental) Groups Dr Paul Millar Department of Physics and Astronomy [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Glasgow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/paulm +44 (0)141 330 4717 A54C A9FC 6A77 1664 2E4E 90E3 FFD2 704B BF0F 03E9 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
