From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 6 13:37:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iguana.internexo.co.cr (iguana.internexo.co.cr [196.40.17.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6944215BC0 for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 13:37:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@iguana.internexo.co.cr) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by iguana.internexo.co.cr (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA16162; Thu, 6 May 1999 14:35:51 -0600 (CST) From: Theodore Hope Message-Id: <199905062035.OAA16162@iguana.internexo.co.cr> Subject: Re: How do I benchmark a Switch? To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White) Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 14:35:51 -0600 (CST) Cc: randyk@ccsales.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at May 6, 99 11:35:44 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. And don't forget things like "ping -f -s 1400 hostname" ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message