From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 6 11:35:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 599EE14E30 for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 11:35:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA21278; Thu, 6 May 1999 11:35:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 11:35:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Randy A. Katz" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I benchmark a Switch? In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990506083515.037ff470@ccsales.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 May 1999, Randy A. Katz wrote: > I have 4 kinds of network switches: D-Link, Cisco, Foundry & CeLAN. The Cisco will win. I'll bet you money :) > I would like to setup a benchmark with FreeBSD to test their speeds and > robustness. Does anyone know how I would go about that? How many machines do you have? You'll want a handful with good ether cards so you can crank up long FTP transfers between pairs of machines. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message