Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 07:25:16 -0400 From: Bob <bob.middaugh@comcast.net> To: jay alvarez <vpsb0y@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any idea how to stress test our bandwidth? Message-ID: <1155295516.5741.0.camel@freebsd> In-Reply-To: <20060811080134.37712.qmail@web39811.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060811080134.37712.qmail@web39811.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Maybe this helps... http://www.netperf.org/netperf/NetperfPage.html Bob On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 01:01 -0700, jay alvarez wrote: > I hope you don't mind my asking this here. > > I'm working in an ISP right now. We are using mrtg for > each client connected to us. They can view their mrtg > statistics. Their way to the internet is to us. Say a > client connects to us via E1, they are guaranteed of > 2.048Mbps because our uplink to the Internet is more > than the total of all the clients link's bandwidth > that are connected to us. Now one client wants to make > sure that they will be able to reach their guaranteed > bandwidth through the mrtg graphs. If we transfer huge > data from their site only up to us, we can > theoretically stress out their bandwidth. However, > they want to try increasing their consumption and see > for their self if they will reach the desired > bandwidth if they are actually connecting to any site > in the Internet, outside our network. Running iperf > from their site to us doesn't seem to reflect to the > MRTG. Any idea how to explain this to our client? > > > Thank you very much for your help > -JaY > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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