From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 19 08:02:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C177616A4CF for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 08:02:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out014.verizon.net (out014pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38ED843D31 for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 08:02:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.161.84.3]) by out014.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040519150200.LYDY5247.out014.verizon.net@mac.com>; Wed, 19 May 2004 10:02:00 -0500 Message-ID: <40AB773D.2020407@mac.com> Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 11:03:25 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: buck@buckjones.net References: <048e01c43d10$1b4711b0$0300a8c0@bucktester> In-Reply-To: <048e01c43d10$1b4711b0$0300a8c0@bucktester> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out014.verizon.net from [68.161.84.3] at Wed, 19 May 2004 10:01:59 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: network traffic X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 15:02:29 -0000 Buck Jones wrote: > I would like two programs that sit on two computer and just talk to each > other and tell what the speed they are talking and if there is a packet > loss "ping -f" is a pretty good way of stress-testing a LAN. You can also use "time ping -s 1000 -c 1000 -i 0.0001 host" or so to send approx 1 MB via 1K packets, and divide. Using ftp or fetch or something that provides a speed rate is a little easier, if something running those services is handy... -- -Chuck