From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 27 01:06:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 3C88116A400 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 01:06:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost2.sentex.ca (smarthost2.sentex.ca [205.211.164.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3D3A43D45 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 01:06:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from BLUELAPIS.sentex.ca (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smarthost2.sentex.ca (8.13.4P/8.13.4) with SMTP id k3R169o5001244; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:06:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: Rob Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:06:28 -0400 Message-ID: <226052h816dffav97ilr1o017nm40je775@4ax.com> References: <20060426031606.33136.qmail@web33302.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060426031606.33136.qmail@web33302.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to verify speed of a 1Gb/s network? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 01:06:11 -0000 On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:16:06 -0700 (PDT), in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Hi, > >How can I verify that a 1Gb/s network is indeed >operating at its optimal speed? I tried this: There are some useful tools in /usr/src/tools/tools/netrate/ to generate a lot of traffic. Also, /usr/ports/benchmarks/iperf ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, Sentex communications http://www.sentex.net Providing Internet Access since 1994 mike@sentex.net, (http://www.tancsa.com)